25 Sep 2022

In a quest to revolutionalise the healthcare industry, Kalafhi Medical Centre has signed an agreement for digitalisation of all their facilities.

“The growing burden of health and limitations of clinical workforce to meet demand has widened the treatment gap, thereby driving the Kalafhi Group to look for innovative avenues to increase access to quality care,” says co-founder and business development director,  Mr Barolong Mouwane.

Mr Mouwane was speaking during a media brief and signing ceremony between Kalafhi Group of Companies and Ever Medical Technologies in Gaborone on Friday.

He highlighted the importance of integrating technology directly into care to increase access to quality health service and noted that the computerised healthcare centres would transform the health sector by offering scalable, accessible and affordable solutions.

He further said digital and or technological health was rooted in the need to create trust and clinical systems that ethically and effectively utilised new digital tools.

The goals of digital healthcare are to improve access and quality care through ethical integration of digital technologies into clinical workflows, evidence-based care and shared decision-making in a sustainable and scalable manner,” he said.

Mr Mouwane said their smart day hospital and clinics would leverage high technology that would make it easier to scale and penetrate markets that were previously considered profitably unattractive.

Mr Mouwane said at Kalafhi they would help to reduce financial and emotional costs as well as body scaring associated with surgery as they would use a minimally invasive procedure such as smart pills.

“The smart medical centre will work on saving client’s money as we are predominantly preventative and pre-emptive medical healthcare providers,” he said.

He said their branch was an answer to a burden of non-communicable diseases, shortages of skilled health workers and underinvestment in the necessary technological advanced equipment and infrastructure.

He also said there were unsustainable healthcare costs, adding that recently hospital bills had gone up, leaving households in financial ruins.

He further said they were bridging the limited access to adequate healthcare for people living in remote areas.

Mr Mouwane said they had partnered with the OMCC Group from France and Ever Medical Technologies of Thailand.

For his part, Dr Scott Gray said Ever Medical Technologies was a team of pioneers committed to pushing the boundaries of modern healthcare, bringing cutting-edge technologies and state-of-the-art solutions to the medical world.

Dr Gray said they had come to make Botswana a model of smart healthcare in Africa as smart healthcare was held un high regard by other countries.

Dr Gray further said his company specialised in unlocking and decentralising healthcare data for patients to maximise efficiency, reduce waste and lower costs for hospitals, patients and payers.

He said that would simultaneously activate the healthcare data for predictive modelling to improve care and inform preventative medicine.

Meanwhile, Kalafhi day hospital will be opened in November. ENDS