Nigerian Students to OfferTech Healthcare Services for the Elderly
In a bid to ensure that the elderly and the aged in Nigerian get quality and good healthcare services, three Nigerian students who are presently doing their Masters programme in the United Kingdom have unveiled a startup programme called Sandfortcare, that seeks to address heath status of the elderly.
Founder of the startup programme, Damilola Olaopa, said the idea was conceived after a colleague who works as a healthcare assistant lost his dad on October last year.
According to Olaopa, “24 hours after speaking with his father on how to assist him to cargo some goods to the UK, he received a call from Nigeria that the father had passed on. What’s most heartbreaking about his situation is that he works as a healthcare assistant in the UK taking care of people’s families but he wasn’t there to take care of his aged father due to his absence from home and that was how our startup idea was conceived.”
Co-founded by Hameed Abdulrahaman and Isatayo Samuel, Sandfortcare is a healthcare startup dedicated to offering personalised and compassionate healthcare and support service to old parents of Nigerians living in the UK. The Startup ensure parents in Nigeria receive the highest quality of care tailored to their unique needs so that the Children in UK can have peace of mind knowing their parents are in good health condition.
According to Olaopa, for a monthly subscription fee, the parents in Nigeria who are the beneficiary gets a personalised care and support plan, regular health checks, nutrition and meal planning, remote consultation and medication management while the family member resident in the UK who is sponsor gets a timely parent wellness report.
“There are plans underway for the startup to be expanded across Europe and to other North America countries like the US and Canada. The startup is for Nigerians in diaspora especially in UK. We are presently registered in the UK and, Sandfortcare limited is incorporated under the companies act 2006 as a private company and its limited by shares, Olaopa said.