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Ep22 - The secret sauce for scaling primary healthcare artwork

Ep22 - The secret sauce for scaling primary healthcare

MedTec Africa
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Stephanie Koczela is CEO and co-founder of Penda Health - a leading private provider of primary health care in East Africa. Since opening its doors over a decade ago, Penda has attended to more than one million patients across 21 medical centers and growing. Digital technologies have been a key tool in enabling Penda Health to march towards its vision of making patient-centered primary healthcare available and accessible in everyone's neighborhood. In this episode, we go into detail about Penda Health's tech-enabled business model which I believe ought to be the gold-standard for scaling primary healthcare in resource constrained contexts. To learn more about Penda Health visit: https://www.pendahealth.com/ --- This episode is dedicated to my younger brother Richard who passed away on the 3rd of August 2022 after a long battle with a chronic illness. His passing was a painful reminder that good health is everything. I miss him dearly. --- If you have any thoughts on this episode, or recommendations of African health innovators that you’d like me to host on the show, please reach out to me directly on Twitter @DrSam_Oti, email: sam.oti@alumni.harvard.edu or via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-oji-oti. Please note that The MedxTek Africa Podcast is distinct from Dr. Oti's role as a Senior Program Specialist at Canada's International Development Research Centre. The information provided in this podcast is not medical advice, nor should it be construed or applied as a replacement for medical advice. The MedxTek Africa Podcast, its production team, guests and partners assume no liability for the application of the podcast's content.

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