Vula Medical

15/09/2026

The best part of reaching three million referrals? Seeing who celebrated with us 🥳

Healthcare professionals and teams from across the Vula network marked the milestone in their hospitals, clinics, departments and workplaces.

These photographs reflect the people behind the number. Every referral begins with a health professional seeking the right next step for a patient, and another responding with advice or support.

Thank you to every health professional whose work helped make this milestone possible.

10/09/2026

“Behind every referral is a patient requiring a decision, a healthcare professional seeking assistance and, in many cases, a specialist contributing expertise remotely.”

Thank you to Community Newsroom for looking beyond the number and sharing what this milestone represents 🙌

Read the article here:

South African digital health platform marks major milestone as specialist referrals increasingly connect clinicians across…

08/09/2026

Three million is difficult to picture, so we put it into perspective 🔎
It is almost the entire population of Namibia, more than the population of the Free State and enough to fill Soccer City 32 times.

For Vula, this number represents 3 million referral cases. Each one involved health professionals sharing clinical information, specialists responding or care teams determining the next step in a patient’s care.

That is the real meaning of the milestone: helping patients get the right care at the right time.

Browse to put the milestone into perspective ⬇️

02/09/2026

The curve tells a story of momentum, one referral at a time 📈

Since 2014, this line has been built by health professionals submitting referrals, specialists responding and care teams working together to determine the next step in a patient’s care.

Today, it represents more than 3 million referral cases, and it is still rising. Our commitment remains the same: connecting health professionals to help patients get the right care at the right time.

27/08/2026

When Vula Medical recorded 367 referrals in 2014, three million felt unimaginable.

This milestone is a tribute to the Vula team and to the health professionals who use Vula to help their patients every day 🎉

Here are just some of the health professionals celebrating with us. Thank you for trusting Vula with your patients.





William Mapham

25/08/2026

Vula Medical has passed a significant milestone — our 3 millionth patient referrals!

Not data points, but people. People who needed a specialist, sometimes urgently, and received one.

To imagine that number, 1 out of every 21 South Africans has been involved with Vula Medical as a patient or a health professional.

When we started 12 years ago, Vula Medical had only 367 referrals during all of 2014. At that time, we thought only two types of health professionals—doctors and nurses—would use Vula. Fast forward, and Vula is used daily by 105 different types of health professionals across South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Botswana and Eswatini. A patient is now helped every 43 seconds.

More than 45,000 health professionals are registered on Vula!

Our mission remains clear: connecting health professionals to improve patient care.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey! You can make a difference — share this link to connect more health professionals and improve healthcare for more people.

Download Vula: https://www.vulamedical.com/get-the-app
Read more: https://www.vulamedical.com/stories/three-million-vulas

William Mapham

18/08/2026

Our team attended the Rural & Family SAAFP Conference in Gauteng last week!

CEO Dr William Mapham presented on “Improving Access to Specialist Services in Rural Areas.”

One of the highlights was meeting some of the healthcare professionals we’ve worked with for five years or more — for the first time in person! It was a very special moment to connect face-to-face and celebrate the work they have done.

Are you a healthcare professional? Download Vula and make specialist support more accessible: https://www.vulamedical.com/get-the-app

13/08/2026

Happening today at 12h20.

Dr William Mapham is presenting "Improving access to specialist services in rural areas" at the Rural Health & Family Physicians Joint Congress in Midrand — Chestnut Room, in the AI, Technology and Digital Health track.
(https://lnkd.in/dFwzjKFX)

A fitting room to be in. Vula Medical started in a rural hospital in the Eastern Cape, built to solve exactly this problem: a doctor in a district hospital needing a specialist opinion, with no straightforward way to get one.

If you're at the congress, come and say hello.

Are you a health professional? Download Vula and connect with specialists directly: https://lnkd.in/dmK2fT-c

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11/08/2026