Kenya-based MyHealth Africa, an built-in healthcare platform altering how folks entry medical companies, by connecting sufferers with native and worldwide well being specialists and hospitals, is rising its attain in Africa, and plans to additional broaden in Center East and South Asia subsequent yr.
The expansion plan comes towards the backdrop of $1 million seed funding it has raised in spherical led by GIIG Africa Fund, with participation from Japanese-based Samurai VC, a household workplace, and current traders. This brings complete quantity raised by the startup, which acquired its pre-seed funding final yr, to $1.3 million.
The brand new funding additionally follows MyHealth Africa’s High HealthTech Startup in Africa award, by the International Startup Awards (GSA) Africa, an unique automobile for the GIIG Africa Fund to seek out, fund and scale continent’s modern startups, it clinched in June this yr.
“MyHealth Africa plans to speculate the funds to proceed quickly increasing throughout Africa. We additionally plan to launch two new areas in 2023, together with the Center East and South Asia, that are already our second and third-largest markets. We help tons of of sufferers every month from these two markets to entry specialised healthcare companies at our community of main hospitals within the Center East, Europe, South Asia and Asia, at the moment from our workplace in Kenya,” stated MyHealth Africa founder and CEO Ryan Marincowitz.
Marincowitz based MyHealth Africa in 2017 as a specialised healthcare reserving platform and medical administration system, to make it potential for sufferers to entry healthcare companies nearly or in-person from docs and suppliers throughout the globe.
MyHealth Africa is among the many listing of startups in Africa fixing inefficiencies within the well being sector, by making healthcare simply accessible throughout a continent; the place medical tourism to different areas is rife, illness burden is highest, and patient-to-doctor ratio is lowest on the earth.
In accordance with World Health Organization, nations throughout sub-Saharan Africa have 0.23 docs for each 10,000 folks, towards the very best ratio of 84.2 docs in essentially the most developed nations.
MyHealth Africa says it assists over 1,200 sufferers month-to-month, having grown month on month affected person visits by a mean of 11% in 2022. The startup has to this point assisted over 27,000 sufferers to entry specialised healthcare companies from over 1,500 medical professionals, and well being amenities.
“Throughout the continent, we’ve got seen over the previous few years how expertise and innovation are having an actual influence on the well being and wellness of Africans,” says Co-Founding father of GIIG Africa, Philip Baldwin. “Once we first encountered MyHealth Africa over the past season of GSA Africa, we turned engrossed in studying how this startup was revolutionising the East African healthcare panorama. And immediately, we couldn’t be extra happy to announce our formal partnership in serving to take the MyHealth Africa resolution to the world.”
