Ministry of Health signed a MOU with AstraZeneca, the company will provide medication for cancer patients who are unable to afford treatment and the ministry will speed up the drug registration process in return.
University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai and Hassan II University will sign an agreement to establish a center for traditional medicine in Casablanca.
Mubadala Healthcare inked a MoU with Nirvana Travel and Tourism to team up on projects promoting Abu-Dhabi as the foremost medical tourism spot. This involves establishing medical tourism packages, probing joint marketing and business opportunities.
Access Bank and GE partnered to create accessible loans for healthcare providers to acquire health technologies. This comes as a step to provide quality care ahead of the launch of the new national insurance health system.
The National Health Insurance bill is causing controversy over its allocated fund, it’s expected to be completed by 2026 over 3 phases: launching initiatives to strengthen the health system with the establishment of the NHI fund, ensuring the fund is fully functional and introducing mandatory prepayment & contracting of private hospitals and specialist services.
The UAE intends to establish a local pharmaceutical plant in Zimbabwe which will help improve the delivery of medicines and medical supplies over the long term.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population stated that it provided 20 million tablets of Praziquantel to treat 6.9 million patients infected with Bilharzia across 20 governorates as part of the ministry’s plan to eliminate the disease by 2022 in cooperation with the WHO.
SHL Telemedicine, an Israeli based provider and developer of advanced personal telemedicine solutions, has acquired 51% of Netherlands based Kadima BV, with an option to acquire the remaining 49% within 24 months.
Sanofi Egypt invested a total of EGP 300m over 2016-2018, growing at 30% per year on average, and will continue to increase investment by 50% in 2019, the pharma giant is also looking to be a key player in Egypt’s upcoming universal health coverage.
GSK & Pfizer joint venture received conditional approval from South African regulator, clearing a hurdle in the creation of a consumer health giant with sales of $12.38 billion. The condition was to continue using local firm Spechpharm Holdings as a supplier for 3 years.
SAGIA signed a MoU with GSK SA, which will result in: GSK doubling its local manufacturing capacity by 2022, possible technology transfer and attracting more Saudi employees & local players.
Qatar is expected to increase the number of hospital beds to 5,700 by 2033 from an estimated 3,800 in 2018. In order to do that, the government is considering offering lands to private investors to build and operate 3 new hospitals
Israeli digital health company MD Clone raised $26 million in an investment round, $41 million was raised in total. The company developed an innovative method of protecting data privacy, while letting researchers use it.
Ministry of Health, VillageReach and Swoop Aero, and Gavi partnered to vaccinate the first children receiving vaccines by drone in the DRC. It is a major step for vaccines to reach remote areas in the country.
Rwanda to start using drones in spraying mosquito prone areas as it steps up efforts to eliminate malaria, this comes after the success of other African countries like Malawi in deploying the drones in mapping and spraying infected areas.
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