January 22, 2020 — Medical imaging technology company Oxipit announced partnership with Swiss medical distribution company Healthcare Konnect to bring ChestEye AI imaging suite to healthcare institutions in Nigeria. The partnership aims to introduce vanguard AI diagnostic capabilities and improve detection of 75 pathologies, including tuberculosis, to one of the largest markets in Africa. With over 200 million,

Ethiopia has officially, opened doors to the third mental health rehabilitation centre at Debre Tabor Medical College in Amhara Regional State. The US $1.4m facility is a four -storey building which rests on 1,323 square meters of land inside the premises of Debre Tabor Medical College. It features a basement

Today, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and five pharmaceutical companies—Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Pfizer and GSK—together announced an initiative to train more community health workers and expand healthcare access to 1.7 million people across six nations in Africa. Two NGOs, Living Goods and Last Mile Health, will run the program. The five pharmaceutical giants and Gates Foundation

Taheca app aims to offer the same kind of information women would get at antenatal services at health centers. But this is a one-on-one service, aimed at directly addressing maternal challenges, explains its founder, Namugambe. Uganda has consistently ranked among the highest in the world when it comes to maternal and

The much anticipated antibiotics pharmaceutical plant in Rwanda will start production in July this year, officials told KT Press. In 2017, Cooper Pharma East Africa plant by Cooper Pharma – a Rwandan company launched construction of their plant in the Kigali Special Economic Zone on 20,000 square meters. Construction works started with

Local health technology innovators will get financial and technical support to pilot their products in the East African market under an International Finance Corporation (IFC)-sponsored project to boost healthcare access in Kenya and the region. IFC Senior Director William Sonneborn said the project dubbed ‘The TechEmerge Health’ will link the

Two KwaZulu-Natal medical students have presented to the World Health Organisation, a cellphone application designed to help with ensuring patients take pills regularly, the University of KZN said on Sunday. “They have designed an innovative approach using cellphone based technology to send automated alerts/reminders via text messages (SMS) to patients