[Transcript] #14: African HealthTech - Emerging opportunities for technology to provide better, faster & cheaper health care across Africa
Transcript for podcast originally recorded on October 18, 2020
😉 Hello healthy Afrobility readers!
Back in October 2020, we dissected the state of health tech in Africa…
(🤷🏾♂️ Is someone really wearing a blue winter jacket in that weather?)
2023-09-12 Update: Health care is still completely fucked in most parts of Africa. Let's hope for improvement to occur at some point…
DFTBA!
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Transcript starts here
[00:00:00] Olumide Ogunsanwo: Welcome to Afrobility, a conversation about African business and technology. Today we're going to talk about the opportunity for technology to make a difference in healthcare in Africa. We'll start with the context of health in Africa. We'll deep dive into different sectors and companies. We'll investigate HealthTech in other developing countries, and then we'll end with our views on the future of HealthTech in Africa.
This episode was recorded on October 18th, 2020. B-MAC, how goes it?
[00:00:30] Bankole Makanju: I'm good. I'm looking forward to today's episode. The weather in Seattle is, Regular Seattle, just misty, just raining all the time. It's great. I love it. But really looking forward to today, healthcare doesn’t quite get the same attention as say something like payments.
And in researching this and speaking to people, I wanna see where this discussion goes.
[00:00:47] Olumide Ogunsanwo: Right. It's the same here. I feel like you always talk about the weather when we start, which is a very American thing to do. I love it. I'm also excited.
[00:00:55] Bankole Makanju: You should move to Seattle and then see the weather and then tell me if you wouldn't want to talk about it.
[00:01:01] Olumide Ogunsanwo: Never. I'm not. I'll come and visit and hang out, but yeah. No way will I be moving to Seattle, hell no. This episode is gonna be fun. This is probably our most requested episode. We've never had so many emails to do the same topic as this episode. There's a lot of pent up demand with our audience.
And similarly to the education episode, everyone knows it's important, but it has a lot of dependencies on infrastructure and government and business models. It's harder to see a way to make it work, even though it's very clear it's important. As we go through this conversation, it'll be interesting for us to disentangle.
Why is it at the stage where it is? How could it work? What about all these other dependencies? What do we think is a way for it to be more impactful in the future?
[00:01:40] Bankole Makanju: Healthcare touches everything. Economic, productivity, rule of law, how an economy is structured, if it's capitalist or socialist, like it shows up in the healthcare system.