Private equity firm AfricInvest is to invest $10.5m in Kenyan medical oxygen provider HewaTele to scale domestic production of liquid oxygen.
The investment, through the firm’s Transform Health Fund, will support the construction and operations of the new plant, including procurement of essential equipment.
Access to medical oxygen remains one of the most pressing but under-addressed challenges in East Africa’s health systems. In Kenya alone, over 70% of existing Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants are either non-operational or producing oxygen at purity levels far below the World Health Organization’s 90% minimum standard for medical use.
This critical gap undermines hospitals’ ability to treat respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia – the seventh leading cause of death in the country – as well as to safely conduct surgery and emergency interventions.
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