Transforming Healthcare in Africa: Efforts Needed By Today’s Business Leaders

 

The pandemic unveiled deeper challenges facing Africa’s healthcare system. Stakeholders, decision-makers, and the elite in various regions were not left out of being stung by the viper of chronic underinvestment, the sole cause of poor care delivery to populations. The crisis hastened several policy dialogues, an increased urgency to strengthen health systems and transform health service delivery in many countries. 

The Bellow are the highlights of the interview with Insights Success a business solutions.

Health systems in Africa are still underutilizing the wide range of perks digital resources provide. Business leaders should seek to ensure that investments are made into new technological solutions, ridding the system of fragmentation while providing visibility into the entire journey of a patient, which allows stakeholders to make the right decisions and efficiently measure impact. With this nut of a backdated health system cracked, there will be so many opportunities to plug financial leakages, thus making healthcare an asset rather than a liability. 

About the Author

Lauretta Hamza is a strategic communications professional whose renowned work for over half a decade cuts across the domains of public policy and health; strategy development, financing, research, capacity building, program design, implementation as well as evaluation. Lauretta aims to direct policymaking and sustainable development with the goal of strengthening systems to improve the lives of populations living in Africa using scalable business-economic models backed by data and technology.

Source URL