Deeksha Gupta

 With a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and the seventh in the world. With this kind of population, Nigeria would be considered a land of opportunities, including for consumption of services and products and availability of human capital. Many investors would thus give it a top consideration. That is coupled with the reputation that Nigerians are known for wanting finer things in life and living in the fast lane, especially out of their own country.   According to Jayesh Saini, there is no doubt there is great potential in the country, especially in the healthcare industry where he has vested interests in healthcare service delivery. The industry, he points out is not as developed as would be expected of such a vast land and human capital. It is unbelievable with all resources the country is endowed with, their still have not managed to meet the 15% of the national budget for healthcare and the total health facilities ...

  DR SWARUP MISHRA He is the Chairman and Founder of Mediheal Group of Hospital s. He travelled from Odisha (formerly Orissa) in eastern India to Kenya, East Africa and in 1997 alongside his wife who is also a medical practitioner they settled in a town called Eldoret. His medical career in Kenya started by him being employed as lecturer in one of the local universities. In 2005 he decided to venture in private practice and acquired what is now referred to as Mediheal Group of Hospitals with hospitals/clinics in the towns of Eldoret , Nakuru and Nairobi. Among the services they provide include: laboratory, ART, ENT, physiotherapy, dental, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics & Gynecology and orthopedics. Dr Mishra is now settled in Kenya and is even a politician. DR UMESH CHANDRA SAINI The camera shy and highly private Dr Saini is the Chairman and Founder of The Nairobi West Hospital. A Kenyan Indian by naturalization, he was born in Kaimganj, Uttar Pradesh, India. He went to Kenya ...

  Fraud is one of the most retrogressive happenings in any sphere of life. Fraud affects all people directly or indirectly. The adverse effect of this in the healthcare industry cannot be over-emphasized. The main participants in fraud cases in healthcare include patients, healthcare service providers, suppliers of goods and services to the sector and brokers. In a nutshell “Fraud in Healthcare Kills”.   According to Jayesh Saini, healthcare fraud and corrupt practices ultimately affects the quality and quantity of services delivered, resources utilization, cost of services, time and human resources. In his opinion, this is one of the factors that have played a role in keeping cost of business to remain high and thus the high charges for service. Interestingly, from where he sits, as a consumer of services and an investor in healthcare, every one of the above participants in the sector blames all the others except themselves, making it sometimes difficult to solve the prob...

  For centuries, dogs have been referred to as man’s best friend. Over time, more and more animals are receiving a place of closeness with humans. While some people keep pets or seek to domestic more animals besides cats and dogs because they are beautiful, can serve security purposes studies show that pets and domesticated animals play a greater role than this. One of the main areas has been the emotional well-being of individuals. It has been observed that many people have better chances of handling emotional-provoking issues and recover faster from anxiety, depression, stress, or tension. Spending time playing with a pet or just getting to an animal orphanage provides a mental and emotional detox avenue. Many single/alone people have found solace and beaten loneliness through regular interactions with animals.   These were the observations and comments of Jayesh Saini of Nairobi as he explained why he supports various bodies that deal with animals including the Kenya So...

  World over, most healthcare systems focus treatment of diseases with little input in prevention and other pillars towards comprehensive health management. This has caused increase in deaths and health care costs continue increasing in ways that are an unsustainable rate. Without mitigation factors in place, this will lead to compromised quality through too little too late.   The culture of medical intervention (help because it has happened) must change as a priority to interception (stop before it happens) if this trend is to be reversed. The cost of preventive healthcare is far much lower than of intercepting when disease happens.   The question begs then, why there is such high mortality rates due to potentially preventable conditions. This is from the mindset that everyone knows what is good for them. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all people. There are those who take what they believe is good for them. Though it is assumed that everyone has the resp...

  There is a saying that necessity is the mother of creation and that it is in hard times that greatest innovations come to fore or the ones little appreciated gain recognition and adoption. The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought to the limelight the importance of non-physical contact health services delivery especially in Africa where the notion of E-Health has been shunned by many saying that it practicing medicine without being touched by physician is not medicine. Talking about E-health, Jayesh Saini notes this was an idea whose time for embrace had come and for acceptability COVID-19 happened. He said that E-health has provided very good measures to help mitigate the spread of the corona virus while assisting those affected or infected by the same. He furthermore pointed out that the pandemic has affected not just the healthcare sector but other sectors and has affected service delivery to people with other ailments, bringing great fear that is deterring people from seeking ...