"relevant health service"
means any health care treatment of any person by a person registered in terms of any law, which treatment has as its object—
| a) | the physical or mental examination of that person; |
| b) | the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any physical or mental defect, illness or deficiency; |
| c) | the giving of advice in relation to any such defect, illness or deficiency; |
| d) | the giving of advice in relation to, or treatment of, any condition arising out of a pregnancy, including the termination thereof; |
| e) | the prescribing or supplying of any medicine, appliance or apparatus in relation to any such defect, illness or deficiency or a pregnancy, including the termination thereof; or |
and includes an ambulance service, and the supply of accommodation in an institution established or registered in terms of any law as a hospital, maternity home, nursing home or similar institution where nursing is practiced, or any other institution where surgical or other medical activities are performed, and such accommodation is necessitated by any physical or mental defect, illness or deficiency or by a pregnancy.