Safaricom-backed healthcare app receives kSH150 million fund

Related imageM-Tiba has received $1.5 million from French Development Agency (AFD) to facilitate its growing dependents and healthcare providers.

The Safaricom-backed healthcare app will use the money to enable its platform further target the rural poor and those who cannot access internet. It also plans to sign 500 new healthcare providers on its platform.

The app was developed in partnership with CarePay and PharmAccess, It has since garnered over 3 million users, over 315,000 visits and has paid out over Ksh636 million medical treatment.

M-TIBA has also linked up with The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to provide health care insurance to 2,000 households under the SUPACover option that caters for families in informal settlements.

Under this partnership, PharmAccess Foundation, through M-Tiba, will sponsor the 2,000 households to access NHIF SupaCover.

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The benefits of the cover include and in-patient and out-patient cover, maternity package, chronic ailments package, kidney transplant cover, renal dialysis and other medical conditions including oncology and medical tests.

M-Tiba enables users to send, save and receive funds and benefits to access healthcare services using their mobile phones at selected healthcare facilities.

NHIF Chief Executive Officer Geoffrey Mwangi says the insurer is gearing up towards universal health coverage.

“We see M-TIBA contributing towards that objective by helping us to include more people in our scheme. By enrolling these patients into the NHIF SUPA Cover Program, we will collect data (using M-TIBA), hereby enabling us to determine the adequacy of premiums and reimbursements for services,” says Mwangi.

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