The Challenge

Healthcare black holes

100 million sub-Saharan Africans live in healthcare black holes, where they have no government health centre within a 5km radius.

For those living in these areas, there are simply no good healthcare options. If a child falls sick, parents are forced to choose between travel they can’t afford to a distant health facility, a drug shop with just a few medications and untrained staff, or a nervous wait at home while they hope the condition doesn’t become deadly.

Why are the 100 million not reached?

Government inability
The local governments recognize the problem. Unfortunately they have stopped building low level Health Centre (HC) II facilities in remote rural areas due to lack of resources, and have even threatened to close some down.

No market solution
Remote rural citizens are so poor, that it is impossible to both provide quality healthcare and make a profit. Private, for profit facilities with qualified staff only operate in larger trading centres where there is money to be made.

NGOs and charities focus on easy results
NGOs and charities have done much to improve healthcare access, but have failed to forge permanent, scalable solutions in remote areas. They have instead focused on temporary, ‘lowhanging fruit’ in more accessible areas, where it is easier to produce results.

We can now reach the 100 million

Over the last 10 years, the landscape of the remote rural areas has drastically changed. These 5 developments make our OneDay Health centre solution possible.

Basic Iron Roofed Buildings
Have been built and are available for rent in remote, rural locations.

Solar Power
Has become affordable, effective and durable enough to provide light and charging.

Network Coverage
Has improved to the point where nurses can call for support, order drugs and operate smart phone applications almost anywhere.

A Nurse Surplus
Has occurred particularly in Uganda, with thousands of newly qualified nurses trained and keen to work, but unable to find jobs.

Dirt Road Networks
Have improved to the point where most locations are accessible for most of the year with a pickup truck, which we need to transport furniture.

For just $4,000 US we can launch a sustainable, primary health centre.

Each OneDay Health centre fills a healthcare black hole, and provides comprehensive, high quality, sustainable primary healthcare for communities
of between 2000 and 8000 people. This is enabled by our scalable healthcare architecture, created to solve sub-Saharan Africa's remote healthcare access problem.