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(L-R) Xetova CEO Bramuel Mwalo, Health CAS Dr Rashid Aman and Safaricom’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer Kris Senanu launch a tripartite agreement during the launch of the Africa Healthcare Supply Chain Summit – East Africa Edition

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Health, tech leaders call for strengthening of supply chain

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 22  -Top health and tech stakeholders in Africa have called for the strengthening of national supply chains by focusing on the role of data and technology in policy and regulatory frameworks, manufacturing processes, and resource mobilization in order to augment the continent’s post-COVID-19 health security systems.

The experts, who were drawn from the Ministries of Health of five East African nations, were speaking in Nairobi during the Africa Healthcare Supply Chain dialogue 2022, which saw the convention of the continent’s multilateral agencies, tech and financial sectors, manufacturers, and donor organizations who shared insights and mapped out opportunities for the continent’s healthcare system post-pandemic.

According to Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Raman, every link of the health supply chain is of great importance as it ensures that essential vaccines, medicines, and healthcare products make it from manufacturing plants to persons who are most vulnerable across the continent.

“Africa continues to lag behind in adoption and use of technology to manage healthcare supply chains. The continent’s healthcare supply chains should be designed in such a way that they are capable of adapting to shifting demands and requirements for routine products and emergency situations such as COVID-19 and other pandemics,” said Health CAS Dr. Rashid Aman.

Healthcare is one of the sectors hardest hit by supply chain challenges during the Covid pandemic. Stakeholders in health service provision including governments and industry players have been called on to leverage technology to mitigate against risk, build efficiencies and resilience moving forward.

“Strong supply chains help ensure that essential healthcare products and services including medicines, vaccines and resources make it from the warehouse to the populations when and where they need them. Every link of the supply chain countsand critically we need to premise these cycles on strong adoption of data and technology,” said Xetova CEO Bramuel Mwalo while speaking at the summit.

The forum convened by Xetova, Safaricom and the Ministry of Health drew participation from Government officials in Rwanda, the DRC, Uganda and Tanzania with the aim of identifying opportunities for collaboration between private sector, public institutions and key stakeholders to redefine access to health care across the continent.

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