INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: HEALTHCARE
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Ryan Sanderson, Exhibition Director at
Informa Life Sciences Group Africa
coupled with advancing technologies and
new approaches to healthcare management,
digital transformation within the healthcare
sector may be one of the solutions to
addressing the challenges faced, particularly
in rural parts of Africa.
Africa Health is the largest platform on
the continent for international and local
companies to meet, network and do business
with the ever-growing African healthcare
market. The event is expected to attract more
than 10,100 healthcare professionals and
over 553 leading international and regional
healthcare and pharmaceutical suppliers,
manufacturers and service providers.
The event will run 16 CPD accredited
conferences offering education on the latest
medical and non-medical techniques, topics
and trends. The conferences will focus on
a number of medical specialties including
surgery, nursing, decontamination and
sterilisation (CSSD), public health, hospital
build, healthcare management, healthcare
technology life-cycle management and ethics,
human rights and medical law. The exclusive
leaders in healthcare conference will highlight
the importance of Public–Private Partnerships
(PPP) in enhancing the capabilities of
healthcare systems in the region.
The event will host distinguished local and
international speakers and industry leaders,
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who will touch upon key issues affecting the
healthcare sector, including:
• Opportunities for investment in
healthcare start-ups in Southern Africa
• Water saving and efficiency in
health facilities
• Making nurses techno savvy
• Planning and managing healthcare
technology across the lifecycle of
healthcare facility
• Community lived experiences of climate
change in relation to energy sources
• The impact of political decisions
on healthcare
• Telemedicine: Providing remote access to
high quality care
Sanderson says that, year-on-year, Africa
Health continues to cement its position as
a leading platform for dialogue around the
most pressing healthcare issues that the
continent faces. “Finding solutions to these
challenges will not only result in greater
access to health services for those who
need it the most, but it will in turn reduce
the financial burden that all governments
experience when trying to meet their nation’s
healthcare needs,” he said.
All proceeds from the conferences will be
donated to local charity, RuDASA (The
Rural Doctors Association of Southern
Africa) and associations. n
THE PRESSURE
TO IDENTIFY
REAL SOLUTIONS
FOR AFRICA’S
HEALTHCARE
CHALLENGES
SHOULD BE
A CRITICAL
CONSIDERATION
FOR ANY ENTITY
LOOKING TO
INVEST IN THE
REGION.
ABOUT AFRICA HEALTH
Africa Health is supported by CSSD
Forums of South Africa (CFSA),
The Association for Peri-Operative
Practitioners in South Africa (APPSA –
Gauteng Chapter), the International
Federation for Medical and
Biological Engineering (IFMBE), the
Emergency Medicine Society of South
Africa (EMSSA), the Independent
Practitioners Association Foundation,
Southern African Health Technology
Assessment Society (SAHTAS), The
Clinical Engineering Association
of South Africa (CEASA), Medical
Device Manufacturers Association
of South Africa (MDMSA), Faculty of
Health Sciences at the University of
the Witwatersrand, the Academy of
Nursing in South Africa (ANSA), the
Public Health Association of South
Africa (PHASA), The Council for Health
Service Accreditation of Southern
Africa (COHSASA), and the Trauma
Society of South Africa (TSSA).
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