The East African region has continuously had healthcare innovators who have committed themselves to finding lasting solutions that can improve access to quality and affordable healthcare services, and therefore providing financial protection to the poor and vulnerable societies.
The Centre for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) began an awards scheme; Health Market Innovations Awards (HIA) to recognize these outstanding health innovation programs in the East African region, which have increased access to health services, improved quality of service delivery. The initiative of rewarding performance has developed and nurtured healthy competition among implementing institutions hence raising the standards of excellence in service delivery to clients.
The inaugural awards ceremony was held on May 2nd 2012 at the Sheraton Hotel during the East African Healthcare Federation (EAHF) conference, and was graced by Uganda’s Minister for Health-Dr. Christine Ondoa, with the mothers2mothers (www.m2m.org) program emerging the overall winner.
The 2nd Health Market Innovations Awards will be held on February 28th 2013 in Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania during the East Africa Healthcare Federation…more details will be provided.
