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Kenya’s Ilara Health gets $4.2M backing to expand clinic-support services
Ilara plans to rollout of a B2B health and occupational service to enable uninsured workers access care at its partner clinics.
These clinics are often set up within residential areas making them easily accessible, and a better, but expensive, alternative to public facilities, where occasional equipment breakdown paralyzes service delivery, and immediate care is never guaranteed. To equip the clinics, the startup has partnered with various manufacturers, including the American company Butterfly Network, to provide devices like the low-cost portable ultrasound tool, which Popa says helps bring scanning services within the reach of target clientele. We have been building a provider model, and we are now reaching the patients to complete the cycle,” said Popa, who co-founded Ilara Health after working in management consulting, then tech and startup ecosystem in Africa for years.
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