Kenyan health financing tech company, CarePay, has announced a partnership with Aga Khan Health Services(AKHS) where it would extend its M-TIBA platform panel, conduct software integration and develop more programmes promoting healthcare inclusion in the country.
The M-TIBA panel will now under the deal be extended to the outreach centers of the Aga Khan Hospitals in Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi.
Since the initiative went live on the M-TIBA platform in 2018, any registered individual to a savings or private insurance scheme on M-TIBA has been able to access treatment, with payments being administered via their mobile phone. Currently, north of 3.5 million people are registered on M-TIBA on a range of public and private insurance and savings schemes.
M-TIBA allows for the easy flow of payments and information from customer’s mobile phones to points of sale, to hospital administrators and subsequently, on to the funding agency or insurance company.
CarePay CEO, Kees van Lede says, “CarePay aims to make healthcare available to all through the M-TIBA platform. CarePay developed the M-TIBA platform to give everyone the power to access quality health care. Thanks to our great partners, like AKHS, we can walk the talk about helping build a more sustainable and user-centric health system.”
Aga Khan Health Services Regional CEO for East Africa, Sulaiman Shahabuddin, said that they (AKHS) are glad to partner with CarePay as more people will be able to seek treatment from their hospitals and outreach centers and easily pay for our services using the M-TIBA platform. “We will also be able to use the platform to ensure a smooth customer journey at our outreach centers and hospitals for our patients and employees,” he added.
CarePay partners with public and private organizations to drive universal health coverage through mobile phones on its M-TIBA platform.Earlier this year, M-TIBA, which is also backed by Safaricom, received KES 150M funding from the French Development Agency, which will be used to ho towards increasing the number of individuals and healthcare providers on the platform.
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