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title: 'Kenya: How is Ilara Health Improving Availability and Affordability of Diagnostic Devices?'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/kenya-how-is-ilara-health-improving-availability-and-affordability-of-diagnostic-devices'
show: 'Faces of Digital Health'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/faces-of-digital-health'
published: '2023-09-28'
audio: 'https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/3GF85E/traffic.megaphone.fm/DHT2736525154.mp3'
---

# Kenya: How is Ilara Health Improving Availability and Affordability of Diagnostic Devices?

## Summary

Kenya has a lot of talent and opportunities for innovation. Access to care is not a problem because plenty of community nurses are present nationwide. However, they have a limited problem and mostly focus on main infectious diseases, leaving serious conditions undiagnosed, says Emilian Popa, Founder and CEO of Ilara Health.

Ilara health equips a network of small healthcare providers with lifesaving and essential diagnostic tools to improve the quality of medical care in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode, Emilian Popa talks about:

- why health insurance is hard to scale in Africa, where people are concerned with daily costs and survival,

- investments and how local VCs mostly invest in sectors like real estate and investments for health tech are supported by foreign investors,

- why Ilara Health is expanding on the Kenyan market but not in Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria or Egypt.

**Transcript: **[https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/kenya-ilara-health-diagnostics-africa](https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/kenya-ilara-health-diagnostics-africa)

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