Royal Philips Electronics and the African Medical and Research Foundation have announced a strategic partnership designed to improve healthcare innovation and infrastructure throughout Africa. The innovation shared value partnership will support AMREF’s social goals and assist Phillips in improving healthcare in Africa, AfricanBrains reports.
Lack of access to roads, telecommunications, electricity and water make it extremely difficult to connect and train healthcare professionals to serve remote rural areas. Philips and AMREF will work jointly to develop large-scale innovation projects to improve infrastructure, connectivity and overall healthcare of underserved populations.
Dr. Teguest Guerma, AMREF’s Director General expressed her delight at this partnership: “This is a very unique partnership. Philips is part of AMREF’s heritage and we are happy to embark on the next step of working together in formulating programmes that will utilise innovation to combat the shortage of health professionals and adopting contemporary solutions that will enable Africans to get proper health services.”
“To provide innovative solutions that can deal with the complexity of healthcare in Africa, Philips is taking a long-term approach aimed at close collaboration with local and international parties that have strong engagement in the issues. By teaming up with AMREF, an internationally respected African healthcare organisation, we are convinced that we can work toward our goals of making a significant contribution to improving healthcare in Africa, expanding our activities for providing clinical and technical training to people, and growing Philips as an organisation on the African continent,” said Roelof Assies, General Manager, Philips East Africa.
For more information about the Philips Fabric of Africa campaign, go to http://www.philips.com/Fabric of Africa.
