Firm Targets Training Gaps Among Nigerian Doctors

Cassona Healthcare Group has unveiled a caller inaugural successful Lagos to alteration healthcare transportation crossed Nigeria. The inaugural provides affordable aesculapian instrumentality and hands-on grooming for doctors.

According to the president and CEO of Cassona Healthcare Group, John Chigbu, the company’s ngo is to supply affordable aesculapian imaging instrumentality and guarantee that the instrumentality functions optimally each day.

Chigbu’s unconventional solution was to connection recognition facilities to aesculapian professionals, citing their qualifications and estimation arsenic collateral. “We bring instrumentality astatine much affordable rates. You wage 20 per cent upfront and dispersed the equilibrium implicit 24 months, portion we support it truthful it ne'er fails.

We volition besides bid doctors, radiologists, sonographers and supply backup powerfulness systems to support instrumentality moving during powerfulness cuts,” helium said.

The CEO besides noted that galore African doctors were trained theoretically and deficiency hands-on acquisition with modern machines, which Cassona aims to alteration done structured grooming and continuous support.

The institution has besides begun gathering diagnostic centres and fast-tracked hospitals to assistance backstage practitioners present prime attraction without the dense fiscal load of acquiring instrumentality outright.

“We cognize that modern instrumentality comes with precocious functionalities, yet astir of the acquisition crossed the continent is mostly theoretical, arsenic galore institutions deficiency the instrumentality needed for hands-on training. So we decided to bid professionals not by providing a two-hour acquisition oregon a video but by establishing an academy. Right now, it’s mobile, moving from spot to place.

“We person besides created Cassona Edge, an academy wherever aesculapian doctors tin person refresher courses similar continuing aesculapian education, and radiologists, sonographers, and radiologic technologists tin each travel and spot the instrumentality and observe it successful motion.

“Another inaugural we’ve undertaken is the operation of hospitals and diagnostic centres. We telephone our diagnostic centre an acquisition centre due to the fact that we privation radical to acquisition what it’s similar to sojourn a existent radiology installation and spot the benignant of work and instrumentality available,” helium pointed out.

At the time, helium said: “We were advised that the astir important happening was to bash what is called a “proof of concept.” Nigeria is simply a huge, analyzable market. To bash what we’ve done, we had to commencement small, truthful we picked Ghana. Today, we person installed astir 140 aesculapian diagnostic imaging systems successful Ghana. We’ve fielded much than 300 work calls, each responded to wrong 24 hours and resolved wrong 48.

“At Cassona, our extremity is not to make a monopoly but to galvanise the backstage assemblage to articulation forces successful making healthcare enactment successful Nigeria. He stressed that the government’s relation is to make an enabling environment, portion it is up to the backstage assemblage to thrust innovation and advancement successful healthcare.”

The commercialized counsellor for the US to Nigeria, Julie LeBlanc, praised Cassona’s groundbreaking enactment successful Nigeria, peculiarly successful the areas of aesculapian imaging instrumentality and grooming for section healthcare professionals.

LeBlanc noted that Cassona’s attack to whole-of-life merchandise support, which includes aftermarket work and grooming for locally based technicians and aesculapian personnel, aligns with the US government’s goals for healthcare improvement successful Nigeria.

LeBlanc emphasised that the US authorities is committed to supporting backstage assemblage partnerships and Nigerian businesses successful gathering a healthier aboriginal for the country.

“Cassona’s maturation is simply a testament to the powerfulness of innovation and concern successful driving economical maturation and improving healthcare outcomes. We look guardant to continued collaboration and to seeing the interaction of Cassona’s enactment connected economical maturation and healthcare outcomes for years to come,” said LeBlanc.

Also speaking, Ogunyemi said, Lagos State is keen connected partnerships with innovative players similar Cassona to enactment its THEMES Plus wellness agenda.

“They instrumentality the accent retired of buying and managing instrumentality by providing training, parts, and attraction successful 1 package. Those are the kinds of partnerships we want,” she said. “We cognize the authorities unsocial cannot bash it, and our extremity is to guarantee Lagosians get entree to quality, affordable healthcare.”