Lifebank, a healthcare technology and logistics company based in Nigeria, has launched in Kenya. This was announced by the co-founder and CEO Temie Giwa-Tubosun on her Twitter page
LifeBank is a medical distribution company that uses data and technology to help health workers discover critical medical products.
Since its founding in 2016, LifeBank has saved over 5,300 lives. Its mission is to save as many lives as quickly as we can, and that can only be achieved if everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, has access to the essential medical products needed to keep them alive.
LifeBank normally uses bikes and boats to deliver supplies to much needed patients in hospitals. Last year, it added drone delivery as its latest mobility solution after a successful test of the first drone flight which took off in Ethiopia. The flight was carried out with support from the Ethiopian Government’s Information Network Security Agency (INSA) and The Drones Doing Good Alliance (DDG).
The Nigerian medical delivery company launched two drive-through mobile testing centers, in partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), to boost coronavirus testing numbers in the country.
Recently LifeBank created a national asset register, Quip, in which staff and volunteers call hospitals throughout Nigeria to document the availability of respirators, ventilators and ICU beds. The objective behind Quip is to establish a national repository where hospitals on the frontline can easily find critical equipment as and when needed. In Nigeria, the firm has contacted more than 2,000 hospitals and found 288 ventilators, 207 respirators and 275 ICU beds
It has expanded Quip to Kenya and volunteers have reached 102 hospitals and found 54 ventilators, six respirators and 265 ICU beds.
