One Day Summit on Islamic Finance:

Exploring New Sources of Financing for Primary Healthcare Transformation in Nigeria.

Registrations open now

Thursday,
30th
November
2023,
8AM
(West African Time).
Our Partners
Africa Islamic Economic Foundation
SunTrust Bank
Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited
Lotus Bank
Africa Islamic Economic Foundation
Jaiz Bank
Sterling Bank
Taj Bank
The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC)
Overview

Nigeria, a country marked by its vibrant culture, diverse ethnicities, and abundant natural resources, faces formidable healthcare challenges that have persisted for decades. These challenges include limited access to quality healthcare, inadequate healthcare infrastructure, shortage of skilled healthcare professionals, especially in primary healthcare settings, inadequate training programs, brain drain, maternal and child health issues, low health insurance coverage, and a high burden of preventable diseases. Primary healthcare, the cornerstone of any robust healthcare system, remains underfunded and underdeveloped, leading to suboptimal health outcomes for millions of Nigerians. Traditional financing models in healthcare, such as government budgets and grants from international organizations, are often insufficient to address the complex challenges in the sector. Given the limited fiscal space and competing demands on the budgets of the various governments of the federation, there is a pressing need to explore innovative and sustainable financing mechanisms that can leverage local resources, attract private sector investments to address the critical challenges faced by the Nigerian healthcare system, with a particular emphasis on primary healthcare.

The Event

The event, Islamic Finance: Exploring New Sources of Financing for Primary Healthcare Transformation in Nigeria, therefore, represents a significant milestone in the intersection of healthcare, technology and faith-based financial principles in one of Africa's most populous and diverse nations in its quest to improve healthcare access and quality. The event is expected to provide a platform for experts, policymakers, financiers and stakeholders to share best practices, successful case studies, and practical strategies for implementing digital healthcare solutions to catalyze the transformation of Nigeria's primary healthcare landscape. Furthermore, it will foster collaboration and partnerships among stakeholders from the healthcare, Islamic finance, technology sectors and explore innovative financing solutions rooted in Islamic finance principles. Islamic finance, with its strong emphasis on ethical and inclusive financial practices offers a potentially untapped reservoir of capital that can be harnessed to bridge the healthcare financing gap in Nigeria.

One of the key focal points of the event will be the role of digital healthcare in transforming the healthcare sector. The event will showcase how digital technologies can enhance healthcare delivery, improve access to medical services, and increase efficiency in patient care. Discussions may include topics such as telemedicine, health apps, electronic health records, and other digital solutions that can revolutionize healthcare in Nigeria.

The event is not just a gathering of experts but a commitment to actionable change. By merging the principles of Islamic finance with the healthcare domain, the event aims to catalyze a positive transformation that resonates across all the 37 States of Nigeria, including the FCT. The ultimate goal is to ensure that every individual, regardless of his or her socio-economic background, has access to quality primary healthcare services, thus contributing to healthier lives and the achievement of SDG No. 3 in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Agenda
  • Opening Session:
    1. Welcome Address: Dr Kabir Umar Dasuki CEO, DUKE Logistics & Consult Limited.
    2. Goodwill Remarks: Baba Yunus Muhammad
    3. Chairman's Remarks: His Excellency, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, Former Governor of Kano State.
    4. Keynote Address: Hon. Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare.
  • Special Session on the Nigerian healthcare system and challenges in the primary healthcare sector: Special Address by Hon Dr Ayode Filani, Honourable Commissioner for Health, Ekiti State & Chairman, Nigerian Health Commissioners Forum.
  • Presentation 1: Africa Healthcare Infrastructure Development Program (AHIDEP), by Hajiya Aishatu Usman Muhammad, Dept of Accounting, Gombe State University. Gombe
  • Presentation 2: Islamic finance instruments for healthcare by Dr Ahmad Bello Dogarawa, Department of Accounting, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
  • Presntation 3: Digital Transformation of Healthcare: - opportunities and Challenges. By Hon. Dr Abdel Majeed Haroun, Former Minister for Agriculture, Republic of Ghana
  • Presentation 4: Special presentation by Glocal highlighting digital healthcare technology solutions by Dr Sabahat Azim, Chairman, Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited, India.
  • Fire Side Session: Focused discussions among participants and delegates from the 37 States of the Federation, including Abuja, on the State of Primary Healthcare in their States.
  • Acknowledgment of participants and speakers - Invitation for continued collaboration and follow-up activities.
  • Closing Remarks by Hajiya Jamila Muhammad Kasim, Director, Strategic Relationships, and Communications, Africa Islamic Economic Foundation, Ghana.
Speakers
Dr. Kabir Dasuki
CEO, DUKE Logistics & Consult Limited, Abuja, Nigeria.
Baba Yunus Muhammad
President, Africa Islamic Economic Foundation, (AFRIEF), Ghana.
Dr. Sabhat Azim
Dr. Sabahat Azim
Chairman, Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited, Kolkata, India.
Dr Abdel Majeed Haroun
Executive Chairman, Litsa Gold Ltd, Ghana; & Former Minister for Agriculture, Republic of Ghana.
Alh Muhammad Lawal Shuaibu,
CEO, LCM Consult Limited, Abuja.
Mrs Sophia Shepodd Innocenti
CEO, Global Islamic Impact Investments Forum (GIIIF), Britain, UK.
Prof. Ahmad Bello Dogarawa
Dept of Accounting, Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria, Nigeria.
Hajiya Aishatu Usman Muhammad.
Department of Accounting, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria.
Hajiya Jamila Muhammad Kasim.
Director, Strategic Relationships, and Communications, Africa Islamic Economic Foundation, Ghana.
e-phc
E-Primary Health Center (HelloLyf PX)

e-PHCs are like creating bridge between the patient and the ultimate healthcare in hospitals for critical care and / or surgery cases, in case needed. E-PHCs aim to provide complete primary healthcare solution (including OPD consultation, diagnostic tests and medicines) from a single point. The e-PHCs will also have in-patient beds for basic hospitalization and day care procedures and a labor room for safe deliveries, the E-PHCs are run by a nurse and doctors of all specialty can be made available digitally

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Your Choice of Healthcare That is Affordable, Accessible & Accountable.

Acute care digital hospital (HelloLyf HX) is a pre-engineered, steel and glass building which can be completed in 6months time. This permanent scalable structure comprises of 100 or 200 beds for high-end acute care spread across HDU, ICU (with ventillators, bipaps, HFNC, medical gas etc) and serves as an apex of response. It also includes multi-speciality and digital OPDs, emergency and triage for trauma, fully equipped pathological lab, radiology department,procedure rooms,dialysis,private rooms,OT complex,NICU , staff-housing facility etc.This provides high-end HIPAA compliant infrastructure, technology and processes , operations and management etc. to ensure a complete solution to high level health interventions. All diagnostic equipments like patient monitors, ventillators, injection syringe pumps,ECG etc are digitally integrated to enable data and reports accessible anywhere digitally with the help of Glocal's Hellolyf (web interface) and Litmus DX software(clinical decision support system).

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Digital hospital
HellolyfApp
Consult Doctors from your Mobile phone - Anytime, Anywhere.

Glocal's Hellolyf is a Telemedicine platform for web & android, backed by a Clinical Decision Support System-LitmusDX (Semantic Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence, Sagemaker/Java) for Differential Diagnosis, Investigation Engine, Treatment Protocols, Inventory Management, Pharmacopeia & Drug) to enable primary healthcare consultations. It's a Virtual on-Demand Clinic based on Telemedicine (webRTC/Python & Java) with Facial Recognition (Image Analysis for identifying patients, doctors & staff and Automated TeIeCRM (Virtual Clinic Management).

We provide seamless video consultation with doctors; instantly and constantly! helloLyf is powered by its in-house software LitmusDx which helps both the patients and the doctors to get better health outcomes by enabling the physicians to take better decisions. And all this is just the beginning! We still have miles to go!

Download the Hellolyf app from Google Play

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Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Your Choice of Healthcare That is Affordable, Accessible & Accountable.

India has been grappling with a number of health problems, with a majority of them rooting back the problem of the growing demand. There is a prodigious mismatch between the demand and supply of healthcare infrastructure and services, with the demand far outstripping the supply.

Almost 74% of doctors in India happen to be concentrated in urban areas, leaving the rural areas underserved. These 74% of doctors are catering only to a third of the urban population of India, or no more than 442 million people. While in the rural sector, the PHCs suffer from an acute shortage of doctors. It is estimated that 600 million people in India are with little or no access to healthcare. Thus, India's existing infrastructure is just not enough to cater to the growing demand.

In such a scenario, Glocal Digital Dispensaries are proving to be the potential catalysts to improve the quality and accessibility of healthcare in India. Penetrating deep in the rural sectors, Glocal Digital Dispensaries are solving the problem of accessibility and affordability of primary healthcare.

Glocal currently runs as many as 583 Digital Dispensaries across Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Manipur- in areas mostly devoid of basic Primary Healthcare services. This innovation –borne out of necessity aims to penetrate more into the far-reached corners of the country in the near future, ensuring that healthcare reaches every person.

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Digital hospital

Litmus MX

LitmusMX is a wonder in itself
Regarded as the future of healthcare in India, Litmus MX is an IoT device for real time medical data acquisition, providing complete primary and emergency healthcare including tests, investigations, diagnosis, patient information gathering, health record management and consultation through a centralized digital platform.

Capable of running a hospital sans surgery, LitmusMX is a wonder in itself.

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Litmus RX

Medicine Vending Machine
Litmus RX is an electronically controlled medicine dispensing device scalable up to 120 SKUs. Medicines prescribed by the doctors are automatically dispensed by the machine nullifying any and every human errors.

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

Litmus DX

Clinical decision support system
LitmusDx is a clinical decision support system that provides end-to-end diagnostic and therapeutic tools to physicians. Acting as a comprehensive doctor's super-hero suite, LitmusDX has a quick turnaround time ensuring reduction of medical errors, making healthcare fast, safe & reliable. It is Cloud-based, regularly updated, and crossed-checked.

Disclaimer: This only generic information about the typical product. For specifics and any commercial transaction, please contact Glocal directly.

DUKE Logistics Consult Limited

DUKE Logistics Consult Limited is a dynamic development and management consultancy firm that specializes in providing strategic consultancy services. We are dedicated to assisting a wide range of clients, including private and government entities, and businesses of all sizes primarily in Nigeria and other emerging markets. Our team of experienced consultants is passionate about helping our clients achieve their goals. We offer a diverse range of services that cover various industries and sectors. Some of our key areas of expertise include healthcare and entrepreneurship development, Islamic economics and finance, executive trainings and capacity development, intelligence and analysis, publishing, trade and investments, and environmental issues. Our consultancy services are designed to drive growth, enhance operational efficiency, and promote sustainable development. We take pride in our commitment to excellence, professionalism, and integrity. Our ultimate aim is to contribute to the success and progress of our clients, enabling them to thrive in today's competitive business landscape.

Africa Islamic Economic Foundation

The Africa Islamic Economic Foundation (AFRIEF) is an independent development organization dedicated to promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development in Africa through the application of Islamic perspectives on economic development and social issues. Registered in the Republic of Ghana as a non-profit, our work encompasses a range of advisory, research, policy development and field-building activities on themes around the Islamic economy, Islamic finance, Islamic Impact Investments and capital markets to drive sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development in Africa. Through our advisory services, AFRIEF provides valuable guidance to individuals, organizations, and governments, helping them navigate the intricacies of the Islamic economy.

Our research initiatives focus on generating knowledge and insights, which contribute to the promotion of ventures for the intellectual nourishment of humanity and the reconstruction of human thought in the light of Revealed Knowledge. With a mission to shift the prevailing paradigm of economic development, and of the economy as a whole, towards a new system that is ethical, place-based, inclusive, collaborative, and ecologically sustainable, we set the benchmark on public policy and economic development by drawing together the most innovative thinking available from some of the world's foremost experts and applying that thinking to the challenges facing Africa. AFRIEF has been involved in various initiatives to expand the reach and impact of Islamic economics in Africa. Our news website and weekly newsletter, Focus on the Islamic Economy (https://focus.afrief.org/) provides a platform for debate amongst experts who wish to air their thoughts and share their insights on Islamic economy, its relevance to the SDGs of the United Nations, and its potential role of providing a complementary or alternative framework for development efforts in Africa.

Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited

Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited (“Glocal”) is An Indian social enterprise that seeks to bring state of the art healthcare to the underserved populations across the globe in a sustainable manner. Glocal is a technology and process-based platform, on a mission to make healthcare affordable, accessible and accountable for all. It has offerings across the continuum of care including, primary, secondary and acute care and delivers healthcare through mobile applications, digital dispensaries and hospitals. It prides itself in being able to build state-of-the-art healthcare facilities at the lowest cost, in least time and which offer healthcare at most affordable pricing in the organized industry. Most of its facilities are in areas where it is difficult for organized sector to reach. It has successfully maximized the use of technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Point of Care (PoC) devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in delivery of healthcare. A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS), ensuring adherence to treatment protocol and reducing medical errors, forms the backbone of its services. Its focus on digital healthcare is all the more relevant after the COVID aftermath. It has 2 Apps - Hellolyf and Hellolyf Dr on Google Play, 700+ telemedicine and IoT based digital dispensaries and 12 hospitals in India. Glocal is now present in 12 countries and has been internationally recognized.

Glocal is promoted by Dr. Syed Sabahat Azim, a medical doctor, ex-IAS and an award winning social entrepreneur.

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