Hewatele is a locally registered social enterprise se tup with a key mandate to ensure oxygen is available, affordably to all needy patients. Hewatele together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global provides all round oxygen solutions to all needy patients.
The Center for Public Health and Development (CPHD), a non-profit organization based in Nairobi, has been working for the past several years in East Africa to improve healthcare systems through training and other innovations. Its initiatives complement government efforts by providing essential infrastructure and training of health professionals for effective health service provision. In 2013, an assessment in Western Kenya showed that hospitals in the region had a huge need for oxygen. Hospitals usually had to go collect oxygen cylinders from Kisumu, with limited funds and transport. This meant that patients often had to wait or even go without this essential drug. In partnership with the Siaya District Hospital, GE Foundation, Frog Design, and CPHD teamed up and the first Hewatele Oxygen Plant was born on September 2014. The plant is fully operational since then and distributes oxygen in over ten countries reaching more than 3 million people in Western Kenya.
Improving access to essential healthcare is the main objective of CPHD, the parent organization. Improving the availability and affordability of oxygen, which is a WHO-recommended essential drug, is a key component of this mission. Hewatele was set up to ensure this.
Make oxygen an essential part of emergency healthcare at all levels of facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Provide regular supply of Medical Oxygen at affordable rates to reduce delays in access to emergency healthcare.
This intitiative has been planned and implemented adhering to CPHD's approach
Manufacture and supply of oxygen in East Africa is mainly a private sector concern. What CPHD understood was it was essential to involve the public sector in order to make this program effective and sustainable.
Hewatele brings together the Ministry of Health, County Governments, Donor Financing (where applicable) and CPHD in a public-private partnership (PPP)—the first of its kind in Kenya in the field of medical oxygen.
The PPP is a guarantee for effective, efficient and quality-driven health services while the training component makes the solution complete.
The NGO affiliate to Hewatele, CPHD is a key partner both in executive management but also the provision of the necessary training and follow-ups with all the healthcare workers who interact with oxygen at their facilities. Over the years CPHD has trained more than 200 HC workers on proper use both at the facilities but also at its anaesthesia simulation training centre in Kisumu.
A key affiliate to Hewatele, Mediquip Global provides all the technical expertise required both at the Hewatele plants with its factory trained engineers but also advisory to clients including oxygen piping to client facilities.
GE Foundation provided the seed capital for our Siaya plant. In addition, they provided the necessary technical support through Assist International during the planning phase and also during the initial operations.
Assist International was the technical implementing partner involved in planning, monitoring and initial execution of the first Hewatele Oxygen Plant in Siaya.
The County Governments are key strategic partners in the PPP relationship since they not only provide the premises for the oxygen plants but are key clients for the oxygen consumption.
Grand Challenges Canada is the development partner that has provided financing for the two expansion plants in Nairobi and Nakuru.
As a key development partner to Hewatele, GCC development loan has enabled Hewatele to expand its oxygen production and access to more counties namely Nairobi, Nakuru, and its environs. Thanks to this support by GCC, Hewatele Oxygen now reaches an extra five million Kenyans.
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