Apollo Hospitals inks 2 pacts in Kenya

Hyderabad: The Apollo Hospitals Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kenyatta National Hospital, the oldest and the largest referral and teaching hospital run by the Kenyan government, for collaboration and knowledge transfer to build local capacity in tertiary healthcare services in the East African nation.

Under the agreement, Apollo Hospitals will train Kenyan doctors and other healthcare staff at Apollo hospitals in India. Specialists from Apollo Hospitals will visit Kenyatta National Hospital to conduct joint medical camps, educational lectures and training programmes. This is in line with India’s support to Kenya in developing a self-sustainable healthcare services model.

According to Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, Apollo has partnered with Kenya for long by way of extending international care treatment to its patients and training their doctors. “Now we are ready to take it to the new level and thereby further enhance India’s contribution to the Kenyan healthcare services,” she said, on Tuesday.

Apollo Hospitals has also signed a deal with Airtel Africa, which has operations in 16 African countries, for enabling easy access to Apollo specialists and enhance healthcare cooperation across Africa. This deal will enable Airtel Africa subscribers access personalised advice in real-time, thereby bringing world-class healthcare services at their fingertips. It will provide its customers with discounted consultation and enable easy payment options through Airtel Money or the customers Airtime, Reddy said.

As part of this agreement, Apollo Hospitals and Airtel Africa will launch Ask-Apollo, a simple and reliable service from a professional medical team at Apollo Hospitals. Ask Apollo is a web and mobile-enabled patient-centric service, which combines the expertise of Apollo doctors, with the convenience of consulting them at anytime, from anywhere around the world.