Today our guest is DR DARRYN NYONI.

FOR WOMEN SUFFERING FROM CONDITIONS THAT RESULT IN UNUSUAL GROWTH OF BREAST TISSUE, SUCH AS GIGANTOMASTIA, HYPERTROPHY AND MACROMASTIA, THE PAIN OF LIVING WITH ABNORMALLY SIZED BREASTS THAT JUST KEEP GROWING AND GROWING IS AS PHYSICAL AS IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL.

- MEDICAL AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA USUALLY REFUSE TO PAY FOR BREAST REDUCTION SURGERY, SEEING IT AS "COSMETIC", A SITUATION THAT LEAVES MANY WOMEN HAVING TO PAY ABOUT R60 000 OUT OF POCKET TO GET THE OPERATION.

- THEN THERE ARE THOSE WHO SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD TO TO DO THIS.

- THINGS MAY CHANGE, HOWEVER, IF THE POWERS THAT BE HEED THE CALLS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WHO HAS SIGNED A PETITION ASKING SOUTH AFRICANS TO JOIN FORCES WITH THEM.

- THEY WANT TO COMPEL MEDICAL AIDS TO COVER BREAST REDUCTION SURGERIES.

- ALMOST 50 000 SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION STARTED BY BREAST REDUCTION SUPPORT SA.

- IT IS ADDRESSED TO THE COUNCIL OF MEDICAL AIDS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SAYING BREAST REDUCTION IS NOT COSMETIC.