When my term ended as President of FOW-USA last August, my husband and I left for South Africa for a couple of years to experience a new culture, a new lifestyle, and new job challenges. So far, life in Pretoria, South Africa, has been fulfilling on all counts. Nor are there mail order houses for such products. I got the answer from two local Hollister representatives. Private patients in South Africa buy supplies from the Cancer Association's Stoma Support Group.
Poor people get supplies from the public hospitals.
The Stoma Support Group sells a fairly wide range of products from Hollister, ConvaTec and Coloplast. Their prices are quite reasonable. They work from a small building on the grounds of the Cancer Association and they have a volunteer stoma therapist who runs a clinic there periodically. There is a paid manager and a corps of volunteers who are themselves ostomates. The Stoma Support Group is not like our ostomy chapters.