In response to the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, Helium Health has developed the  Helium Teleclinic platform that enables brick and mortar hospitals to have televisits with their patients. Helium Health’s flagship product is the Electronic Medical Records/Hospital Management Information System, an end-to-end software which helps hospitals manage and digitally store the data. The company’s product is currently […]

South African company EPCM Holdings has reacted quickly to the heightened demand for ventilators due to the Covid-19 outbreak. It will this week start producing its first low-cost ventilator (see prototype in the above video) units for delivery to several African countries. Read More Source: How We Made It In Africa

Inventors in Ethiopia have been developing devices and gadgets to combat COVID-19. One of them, Ezedine Kamil, has told DW how a lack of funding prevents his designs from fully benefitting local communities. Read more Source: DW Online

Jkuat has unveiled two portable solar-powered ventilators that use a 12V battery, a contact tracing application, a digital system that predicts Covid-19 infection trends in Kenya and an automatic solar-powered hand-washing machine. Read more Source: Daily Nations, Kenya