Memorandum of Understanding signed to raise high quality and increase protection of most cancers care in Kenya; Imaginative and prescient to enhance regional entry to most cancers care past nation limits; Lengthy-term Worth Partnership together with consulting providers, diagnostics and imaging options, most cancers remedy, upkeep and teaching programs.
Redhill Most cancers Hospital, below the umbrella of RVL Healthcare Ltd, and Siemens Healthineers are partnering to enhance important most cancers care throughout Japanese Africa. To the backdrop of rising most cancers instances globally and particularly in Africa – with forty-five thousand new most cancers diagnoses and virtually thirty-thousand cancer-related deaths in Kenya alone per 12 months (World Most cancers Observatory 2022) – the 2 events agreed to collaborate in constructing an built-in Most cancers Middle and Analysis Park in Nairobi, Kenya. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed through the current US-Kenya Enterprise Discussion board held in Washington, D.C. between Dr. Leela Prasad Pamidimukkala, Founder and CEO of RVL Healthcare Ltd, and Vivek Kanade, Managing Director of Siemens Healthineers, Center East&Africa, within the presence of His Excellency Dr. William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, and Ambassador Meg Whitman, United States Ambassador to Kenya.
Dr. Leela Prasad Pamidimukkala, Founder and CEO of RVL Healthcare Ltd., commented: “Our imaginative and prescient is to construct Africa’s most complete Most cancers Middle and Analysis Park centered on providing prime quality analysis providers, most cancers remedy and groundbreaking analysis. As an establishment, our mission is to supply inexpensive most cancers providers to our individuals and to individuals in Africa. With Siemens Healthineers as our companion, we’re on a journey of reshaping Africa’s oncology panorama through the use of trendy applied sciences and revolutionary options to supply inexpensive most cancers take care of the broader area, whereas making a big contribution to attaining Kenya’s targets for Common Well being Care.”
The understanding includes not solely of advisory providers for the preliminary building of the ability, but additionally consists of the availability of state-of-the-art diagnostics, imaging and remedy gear alongside the whole oncology pathway. Siemens Healthineers will even help the healthcare facility’s sustainable long-term progress technique with capability constructing packages, from bodily trainings to distant engagements and AI-based providers. The academic packages can be a key contributor to countering the scarcity of expert healthcare professionals in Africa, serving to to raise and future-proof the native healthcare infrastructure.
Vivek Kanade, Managing Director of Siemens Healthineers, Center East&Africa, added: ”Along with Redhill Most cancers Hospital, we comply with the imaginative and prescient of making a world with out worry of most cancers. We’re happy and humbled to be engaged on this monumental facility with RVL Healthcare, which we envision will carry a ray of hope to the lives of thousands and thousands of sufferers and their households. By becoming a member of forces to construct this distinctive Most cancers Middle and Analysis Park, we can be one step nearer to realizing the imaginative and prescient of creating important most cancers care extra accessible, which ties into our firm’s objective of creating healthcare extra inexpensive and accessible for everybody, in every single place.”
Via the built-in method throughout the most cancers pathway, Redhill Most cancers Hospital will present a one-stop resolution for sufferers from throughout the area, considerably bettering entry to care, whereas decreasing the variety of individuals touring overseas for remedy, consequently supporting the native economic system.
For the Analysis Park, which can be immediately linked to the hospital, the 2 events will collaborate with instructional establishments and pharmaceutical firms, making a nexus for cutting-edge analysis in oncology and a hub for coaching and schooling of present and future healthcare professionals.
Building for the distinctive facility, which goals to conduct as much as 200,000 most cancers screenings and 4,000 surgical procedures per 12 months, is deliberate to begin in August 2024. The ability is about to open its doorways to sufferers by the top of 2025.
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