Fungai Ndemera: Fixing Healthcare for the African Diaspora

Change Africa Podcast

Fungai Ndemera is a trained nurse, health tech entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of CheckUp Health.

Fungai takes us on her journey from Zimbabwe to a small village in the Midlands in the United Kingdom, where she continued in her trained profession as a nurse. Armed with audacity and confidence, she would pursue her own health recruitment company only after a year of being in the UK.

Despite her upbringing in poverty, Fungai's mother instilled positivity, and hard work as guiding principles, which, coupled with a robust belief system rooted in her faith, served as the foundation of her mentality. We explore how a mindset of aspiration and ambition can be expanded to Africans in similar settings irrespective of location and economic circumstances.

Fungai illustrates how problems specific to Africans remain with Africans even if they are in the Diaspora. An example is a lack of ethnic-specific medical solutions in foreign countries that can open doors to new issues. This understanding led Fungai to start a digital-driven clinic back in Zimbabwe. By making remote health monitoring accessible specifically for diabetes and hypertension, which are the two sicknesses causing the highest fatalities in Zimbabwe, CheckUp Health was able to raise data from more than 25,000 patients. The insights from these data are now used to assist ethnic minority communities back in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, we discuss how Africans should create not only solutions to their problems, but also new approaches based on their indigenous knowledge systems and aspire to scale them globally.

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