OLK HealthTech Consults Ltd

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; Uganda

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and how proper maintenance of oxygen concentrators expands access to medical oxygen to save lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

OLK HealthTech Consults Ltd’s mission is to strengthen healthcare systems by enhancing biomedical engineering capacity through locally driven, sustainable solutions that restore functionality to life-saving medical equipment and prevent avoidable deaths.

The distribution model is centered around deploying trained biomedical engineering graduates as frontline oxygen support agents in under-resourced hospitals, beginning with a pilot in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda. These graduates are equipped with toolkits, mentorship, and a structured deployment plan to restore functionality to critical oxygen concentrators and train healthcare workers in basic maintenance.

By embedding technical capacity directly within district health facilities, OLK HealthTech’s model reduces equipment downtime, empowers local teams, and extends the lifespan of life-saving technologies. What sets them apart is their hybrid focus on both device functionality and local human capital development, solving two system gaps at once. This locally grounded, cost-effective approach offers a replicable model for nationwide scale.

OLK HealthTech Consults Ltd was founded by three Ugandan biomedical engineers, Solomon Canna Owino, Success Kamuhanda, and Moses Luswata, driven by a shared vision to solve critical health system gaps through local biomedical innovation. The team combines expertise in clinical engineering, health technology management, and biomedical training, with years of hands-on experience in Uganda’s public hospitals. Success Kamuhanda currently leads the venture’s strategy and technical coordination.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Improve access to life-saving oxygen for over 1,575 people, through preventive maintenance, calibration, and rapid repair of oxygen concentrators, across public health facilities in Tororo District Region

• Repair and maintain 315 Oxygen Concentrators, and build local biomedical capacity by training 5 biomedical engineering graduates and at least 50 hospital-based health workers (nurses, maintenance technicians, clinical officers, artisans) using a hands-on Training-of-Trainers (ToT) model.

• OLK HealthTech is seeking to raise an additional $30,000 to support the deployment of biomedical graduates, scale maintenance activities to at least 10 hospitals, procure critical spare parts and backup equipment, and expand local training programs that will improve oxygen access while strengthening hospital-based biomedical capacity.

FOUNDING TEAM

Success Kamuhanda - Biomedical Engineer

Owino Solomon Canna - Biomedical Engineer

Luswata Moses - Biomedical Engineer

OxyCare Uganda

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and how proper maintenance of oxygen concentrators expands access to medical oxygen to save lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

OxyCare Uganda aims to sustainably care for oxygen concentrators to save the lives of people in communities that would have lost their lives due to a lack of oxygen and functional oxygen concentrators.

OxyCare Uganda’s operating model is rooted in the community. They will recruit and empower local biomedical and electrical technicians, providing them with facility-based oxygen concentrator simulation training. This approach will ensure timely assessment, maintenance, and repair of oxygen concentrators in Northern Uganda, fostering a sense of ownership and trust within the community.

Together with trained and skilled technicians, OxyCare Uganda will train oxygen concentrator users at health facilities to use simple maintenance techniques to reduce errors and downtime. OxyCare Uganda will go beyond maintenance and repair by offering rental and leasing services for backup oxygen concentrators and cylinders during emergencies.

OxyCare will maintain a reliable 24/7 helpline distributed to partnered and all other regional hospitals for seamless communication and immediate response. This ensures that service requests, including emergencies, are never delayed. They will also develop a dynamic website with a 24/7 helpline, standard operating procedures (SOPs), a quick maintenance guide, and an online form for requesting maintenance and repair support, providing a secure and trusted platform. A standby motorcycle will support the repair and maintenance team in responding to emergencies, performing routine assessments, and performing repairs and maintenance.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 70 children and other individuals in need of oxygen within three months.

• Repair and maintain 23 Oxygen Concentrators in three months.

• Fundraise an additional $20,000 from new donors and investors within three months.

FOUNDING TEAM

Solomon Piwun - Biomedical Engineer

Peter Kalulu - Public Health Specialist

Pius Okwairwoth - Electrician

Tony Abeka - Finance and Administration

Prime Biomedical U Ltd

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Prime Biomedical U Ltd’s mission is to increase access to life-saving in remote and peri-urban Health Centres through timely maintenance and repair of oxygen concentrators in Western Uganda.

Prime’s Distribution model will entail the skilling of biomedical technicians based at a central Oxygen hub to implement a timely maintenance plan for oxygen concentrators at health centers in Western Uganda. Oxygen equipment users will also be trained on how to perform basic maintenance practices which go a long way in reducing user error faults to reduce downtime. Prime Biomedical is also uniquely placed to provide these services thanks to the existing capacity and expertise to manufacture some basic oxygen concentrator spares through 3D printing equipment and access to a fabrication lab.

Prime Biomedical was founded in 2017 by Leslie Turyahikayo.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly provide life-saving oxygen to 3,000 patients within three months

• Recruit and Train 2 Biomedical Technicians to Repair, Maintain and Service 50 Oxygen Concentrators at 5 Health centers within three months

• Directly provide life-saving oxygen to 9,000 patients within one year.

FOUNDING TEAM

Leslie Turyahikayo - Manager

Oxicare

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Oxicare is on a mission to serve over 1 Million patients by helping them service their Health Devices.

Oxicare was started with a simple mission- A Saved Life Saves Lives. The initiative’s business model revolves around recruiting and training jobless technicians from across the country and provide them job of repairing and maintaining Oxygen Concentrators in their local areas.

The organization was founded by full time Program Director Rajesh Bansal (Alumni IIT-Bombay) along with Anika Singal who has extensive experience of working as a Senior Consultant in Indian Government Advisory projects.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,000 Customers by servicing 200 Concentrators

• Train 20 Bio Medical Engineers to service 200 Concentrators

• Raise an additional $15,000

FOUNDING TEAM

Rajesh Bansal - Director

Anika Singal - Director

HealthPort

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

HealthPort improves access to medical oxygen through digitized clinician support and oxygen equipment asset management.

HealthPort is a health tech venture improving access to quality medical care by using digitized solutions to efficiently manage care delivery and resource availability in low-resource settings. Using low-cost solutions, we intend to improve oxygen access and hypoxemia outcomes by strengthening capacity among local biomedical technicians, improving clinician ability to assess oxygen needs using simple quality improvement interventions, and medical asset management for rural healthcare facilities in Nigeria.

The HealthPort solution focuses on improving care delivery skill sets and establishes a foundation for digital medical device assets management. Maintaining oxygen concentrators under our distribution model will improve access to medical oxygen and increase prioritization of low flow oxygen needs.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Train 10 biomedical technicians to service 50 Oxygen concentrators, reaching 1,000 patients during the pilot phase.

• Improve clinician ability to assess oxygen need by 80% and decrease hypoxemia related mortality in regions where we work by 20-40%.

• Raise an additional $20,000 within 3 Months

FOUNDING TEAM

Aishat Adeniji - Co-Founder/Clinical Operations Lead

Oladeji Sofoluke - Co-Founder/ Health Center Relations

James Adebayo - Biotechnician

OxyMed Global Solution

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; THE GAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

OxyMed Global Solution improves access to medical oxygen The Gambia by repairing and maintaining existing oxygen concentrators. The pilot will be based in two rural health facilities in The Gambia.

The OxyMed model is focused on recruiting and training biomedical technologists while providing them with the necessary tools and resources to carry out commissioning, repairs, and preventive maintenance on oxygen concentrators. In addition, a comprehensive use and user maintenance training will be conducted for nurses to enhance the proper usage and productivity, and an asset management database will be deployed to keep track of all information related to service and maintenance record. This data could eventually be used for future decision making by both health facilities and OxyMed.

A minimum stock of replacement parts will be kept supporting immediate need for replacement parts, thus minimize equipment downtime. OxyMed will also support Health facilities managements in equipment pre-purchase advice and a replacement plan for machine that have reached economic useful life. A dedicated local representative for each facility will be trained to serve as first line support on basic user maintenance.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Increase access to medical oxygen for up to 300 patients in rural health facilities within the three-month pilot

• Ensure that 90% of the 20-25 concentrators supported in the pilot are in good working condition

• Reduce the cost burden on oxygen cylinders purchased by health facilities by 20%

• Reach 6,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Ebrima Nyassi - Executive Director

Ismaila A Jallow - Program Director

GLOMED Technologies

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; GHANA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

GLOMED Technologies improves the accessibility of medical oxygen through the servicing and maintenance of medical oxygen concentrators in Ghana, beginning in the Ashanti Region.

GLOMED Technologies ensures that each and every concentrator under its technical care is working throughout its lifespan. This will ensure that patients get access to high grade medical oxygen at affordable rates thereby increasing the accessibility of oxygen to all patients irrespective of their economic background.

GLOMED Technologies was founded by Thomas Kwame Duah and David Opoku who are all professional biomedical engineers and supported by Ing. Faustina Adu-Poku and Ing. Tuffour Gyekye Ampem. The team consists of professional clinical engineers with much experience in the maintenance and management of medical equipment.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Service and maintain 20 oxygen concentrators within the three-month pilot

• Directly reach 430 patients with medical oxygen within the three-month pilot

• Raise an additional $30,00 from new donors and investors within the three-month pilot

• Reach 5,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Thomas Kwame Duah - Director of Sales and Marketing

David Opoku - Director of Operations

Ing. Tuffour Ampem Gyekye - Technical Supervisor

Ing. Faustina Adu-Poku - Finance Manager