Webinar | Africa Healthcare Network: Saving lives across Commonwealth Africa ft Nik Pereira-Kamath

The Africa Healthcare Network has established the first and largest dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis and world-class technical expertise combined with developing world practical operating experience to a region in dire need of quality dialysis treatment. Dialysis is a life-saving treatment for patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The few hospitals that provide treatment operate centers that are slowly deteriorating while charging prohibitive prices.

Nik established the Africa Healthcare Network in 2015 with the goal of increasing access to care by increasing awareness and reducing the cost of care in the sub-Saharan region while adhering to global standards of quality. In less than eight years, he has built the organisation into the largest pure-play dialysis provider in East Africa with over 30 facilities across the region and expected 35 facilities by 2022 and over 100 facilities by 2025. As of yet, AHN has 23 centres across Sub-Saharan Africa with most in the Commonwealth nations of Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya; new centres are expected to become operational in Ghana by the end of 2022.

In this webinar, the Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce and Nik discuss in detail the philosophy that made AHN become a reality and the business model that has helped it become the successful and swiftly expanding dialysis chain it is today. Nik reflects on the distinct advantage and ease of business Commonwealth nations provide due to the commonalities in culture, language and legal systems and shares how the Commonwealth nations of Africa and its people, despite having still a way to go in terms of effective policy framework building, have all the qualities and capabilities needed to become the economic powerhouses of the future.

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Timecodes:
00:00 Julia Charlton's welcome speech
04:52 Nikhil Pereira-Kamath about Africa Healthcare Network
16:39 Nik Pereira-Kamath about his family and parents
20:16 Nik Pereira-Kamath about language
22:00 Nik Pereira-Kamath about entrepreneurial journey
26:21 Nik Pereira-Kamath about corporate governance
27:53 Nik Pereira-Kamath about staff structure work
35:10 Nik Pereira-Kamath about procurement
36:31 Nik Pereira-Kamath about public-private partnership
44:21 Nik Pereira-Kamath about ambitious plan to triple the number of AHN treatment centers by 2030
51:44 Nik Pereira-Kamath about where he sees AHN in ten years' time
52:43 Julia Charlton's closing speech

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