The corona virus-pandemic has accelerated the tele-health business industry across the African continent. Lately we saw the tele-health businesses mushrooming all over the continent.
mPharma, the Ghanaian tele-health pioneer is planning to launch and set up to 100 virtual centres across seven markets in the African continent over the next six months.
Speaking to TechCrunch about the rolls out of centres, mPharma said its end goal is to deliver quality primary care in communities they serve by providing medical examinations, a service the startup’s co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson said lacks in most telemedicine structures.
“We saw this as an opportunity to leverage our pharmacies as virtual doctor offices so that patients could get examined remotely during a virtual consultation. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique” added Rockson.
The company has presence in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, the patients in those countries set to benefit from these new developments.
“We currently have five centres open. We have done an assessment of all our pharmacies and plan to establish the Mutti Doctor locations (the virtual centres) based on the needs of the community. We have already identified the first 100 locations,” Rockson told TechCrunch.
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