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Who we work with across South Africa

Most of our accounts started with a single quote request and grew into a standing order. These are the kinds of practices and facilities that keep Yak Medical on their supplier list, from solo consulting rooms in Pretoria to frail care homes in the Cape.

GP practices

Single-doctor rooms and multi-partner practices ordering examination gloves, syringes and gauze by the case, with monthly restocks on a fixed schedule.

Community clinics

Clinics running daily dressing changes and autoclave cycles, supplied with wound care consumables and self-seal sterilisation pouches in two sizes.

Frail care homes

Residential facilities that need mobility aids, PPE and reception furniture alongside repeat consumable orders, often with help matching sizes and fittings.

Day hospitals

Small day hospitals ordering IV lines, diagnostic instruments and bulk PPE, with delivery arranged from Johannesburg or Cape Town depending on province.

Practice managers

The people who send us the list. They get a written quote by email, confirm compatible accessories, and set up standing orders for the items that run out fastest.

New rooms

Practices opening a consulting room from scratch send us their layout, and we confirm what fits before the quote goes out, from the couch to the dressing trolley.

Working with a facility type that is not listed here? Send your list to info@yakmedical.com and we will confirm what we can supply.

Who we are, and who we stock for

Yak Medical started as a small counter operation supplying examination gloves and gauze to practices around Johannesburg. The list grew the way it usually does in this trade: a practice manager asks for one more item, then another, until the catalogue covered most of what a consulting room actually burns through in a month.

Today we supply GP practices, community clinics, frail care homes and small day hospitals across South Africa. Not large hospital groups with their own procurement departments, but the rooms where one person does the ordering, the stocktake and the follow-up call when something arrives short.

Built around the practice list

Examination room basics, diagnostic instruments, wound care consumables, PPE, sterilisation pouches, mobility aids and reception furniture sit in one catalogue. You send a list, we check sizes, fittings and compatible accessories, then come back with a written quote.

Bulk where it matters

Gloves, syringes, gauze and IV lines are priced by the case, because that is how they leave the storeroom. Repeat items can run on a monthly standing order so the same list ships on a fixed schedule instead of being rebuilt each time.

Dispatch from two cities

Orders leave from Johannesburg and Cape Town, which keeps delivery to Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal within the same week in most cases. Outside those provinces we plan the dispatch date with you before confirming.

How we talk to practices

Plain answers, no upselling of items you did not ask about. If a glove thickness or a pouch size will not suit your autoclave cycle, we say so before the order goes out. If a fitting is unclear, we ask for the measurements rather than guessing. That is the whole approach, and it is why most of our orders come from practices that have been buying from us for years.

Inside the rooms we supply

A few of the setups we have helped fit out over the years. Each one started as a list on paper and ended with a delivery note from Johannesburg or Cape Town.

Yak Medical story — New consulting room, Pretoria East

Couch, wall diagnostic set, dressing trolley and a first batch of consumables, matched to the room dimensions before the quote went out.