‘How we want to revolutionise healthcare sector in Africa with MyhealthXP’

Experts have canvassed technology innovation as a critical success factor that will help Nigeria solve the healthcare delivery crisis.

This was the position of stakeholders who gathered to proffer a new solution for the healthcare sector in Lagos.

The new innovation comes off the background of different challenges confronting the sector including brain drain, poor infrastructure, lack of funding, inadequate access to healthcare and inaccessibility to health records among other things.

MyhealthXP is an on-demand healthcare application developed to create a seamless and innovative approach to healthcare delivery in Africa.

The app is set to connect individuals to highly qualified and verified doctors, laboratories, and pharmacies, providing them with efficient, convenient, and accessible medical attention wherever they are. With myhealthXP, Africans can access quality and affordable healthcare at their fingertips.

Quoting reports, Eromosele Omomhenle, Board member, MyhealthXP during a virtual presentation entitled Empowering Africa’s Health Landscape: The innovative approach of HealthXP called attention to the gaps in healthcare delivery underlining why tech is the future.

Omomhenle noted that “over 5,600 medical doctors have migrated to the United Kingdom in the last eight years, a figure some say could be more. The Nigerian population is now over 200 million 363,000 medical doctors whereas it has only 24,000 licensed practitioners. With MyhealthXP, African medical practitioners based outside their country can leverage the technology to give back their expertise to their communities,” he revealed.

According to Dr Kayode Ogunleye, “Our aim is to use technology to enhance the deficits we have in the healthcare sector across Africa. We are putting the patient in control of their health records. We are in a time of open-source collaboration in which the healthcare provider and patients are co-workers. This is where the journey to recovery and the health of the nation work together. We missed the first industrial age and the space age that followed but with technology, I feel Africa will not miss the IT revolution. It is happening already, just right in front of us and MyhealthXP wants to be the forerunner to help Nigerians and Africa in general achieve this aim.”

Describing the innovation as a ‘democratization of healthcare,’ Seni Williams, Non-Executive Director, NPL Nigeria disclosed that healthcare records have never been in control of the patients who truly matter but for a very long time at the hands of government and providers which should not be so.

“My initial reaction to this innovation is that finally, we can now read what the doctor prescribes. This is very important. When the patient has access to their own record and is able to share with any professional they want, they stand a better chance than when it is locked away somewhere. We live in a global world today and there must be a facility like myhealthXP where records can move seamlessly with us because anything can happen along the way.”

Comfort Olatunde, Director of Marketing disclosed that the app is user-friendly and now available for IOS users on Apple Store and Android Users on Google Play Store within Nigeria, US, UK, and Ghana.

She assured, “We have processes in place that ensure that onboarding health practitioners possess the right qualifications. Our onboarding process is seamless and patients will find it very affordable. Plans are underway for MyhealthXP to expand into other countries within Africa.”

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