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Congratulations to the winning startups at the Transform African Medtech Conference!
May your win forge a vibrant path for your organisations, making your scalability, impact and sustainability dreams come true. πππ
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The assistive devices award goes to A-lite winning $4000!
Congratulations!
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The non-surgical and medical equipment award goes to Simbona winning $4000!
Congratulations!π₯³π₯³
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The Impact award goes to Maziwa Breastfeeding, winning $3000!
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We should unpack the documentation available on policies that help us know what works for our medtech developers, as well as tap into the available PanAfrican policies to enable scalability of medtech across the continent.
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To curb the rising market access challenges of med-tech, telling our stories, government support, sensitisation of communities to believe in uptake of innovative solutions, less imports and more homegrown solutions are recommended.
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"We don't have a streamlined standardisation organisation in Africa-a bottleneck in the growth of med-tech commercialisation. We should harmonise Africa's system for our own good, ease of certification, funding, uptake, and scalability." Investors in TAMC
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1st panel has been on Medtech Innovation Ecosystem Stories. A memorable story on how Mr. Chiira manouvered his disability in childhood to his tech contribution in adulthood, as well as topical presentations from Ms. Elizabeth Asma and Mr. Masoud Mnonji. #TransformAfricanMedtech
"We need to shift from our over-reliance on imports and needing foreign professionals for assembly and creation of our tech, even med-tech. Our engineers are capable with a little training to progress the space." Prof. Paul Kioni
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"Who are the friends of Africa that we can work with in developing our medtech?" Prof. Kioni shared on his commitment to seeing the uptake of more tech within the continent through university collaborations, resource mobilisation and capacity building.
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All smiles and gleaming here at the Transforming African Medtech Conference! Our future is as bright as our smiles!
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Eng. Wambui shares her recent misdiagnosis story, and asks a question we should reflect upon. "What can we do to curb misdiagnosis during early screening?" Was it not for her pushback seeking alternative opinions, she wouldn't know what she does today.
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Give a word of encouragement to these super innovators in the African MedTech space as they hope to win their desired grants.
From us, we cheer them on now and even beyond this conference!
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Ultimate keenness as the pitching sessions are ongoing.Various start-up founders and team members showed up to pitch their existing MedTech solutions to the audience, and a group of judges with the hope to get awarded towards the end of the conference.
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Day 2 of the Transforming African MedTech Conference is here!
We're exhilarated to seeing the progress of the day filled with pitching sessions, panel conversations,speeches, storytelling and last day networking.
Our transformative vision is coming alive!
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The 3rd panel moderated by @junekm had academic heads discussing; What does African- Centered MedTech look like?
Key takeaways. "We need to be deliberate in creating synergies that can be drawn from MedTech.
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There's need to build our local capacity products.
@Revital_kenya is the largest manufacturer of medical devices in Kenya.
At has full capacity, they produce more than 1 billion medical devices annually of 40+ products exported to 20+ countries.
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Scenes of various partners at the press conference. The media asked questions, among them the expected impact of the Transforming African MedTech Conference. We look forward to this being highlighted across various media stations to populate our message.
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Takeaways from the 1st panel on the MedTech Ecosystem Landscape. 1.Patnering with other investors is key for growth. 2.Investors should be more encouraged their solutions will be financed. 3. Africa needs to work in one voice to unify approval processes. #TransformAfricanMedtech
Medtech Players in Africa:
South Africa & Egypt are the largest markets.
Kenya, Nigeria & Morocco are significant markets.
Limited data for other countries!
How do we get that data?
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