In Nigeria Health Watch Femi Sunmonu writes about the recently launched Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria(PHN):
More hereThe primary agenda of the PHN is to embrace innovation in all its forms to not only meet the health-related millennium Development Goals but to progress beyond them. “Innovation”; what really is that you may be asking. One example illustrated below is that the organisation has already made strides towards their goals by partnering with the telecoms industry to utilise the excess power generated at transmission towers to strengthen nearby health facility vaccine cold chain infrastructure. Similarly it has joined forces with the pharmaceutical industry to leverage their supply chain infrastructure to augment primary healthcare systems in select states.
The PHN has also committed to innovation by creating a health innovation marketplace that will serve as a platform for all things innovative in health. It intends to open a health innovation challenge with cash rewards to fund winning participant's programs. Independent of this competition, the platform will also serve as funding mechanism for healthcare innovations.
