Is African Healthtech and GCC Digital Healthcare Thriving?

Money is returning to African healthtech, while the GCC is pouring capital and government backing into digital healthcare. But beneath the headlines, the two regions are facing very different questions about whether African healthtech and GCC digital initiatives can actually scale.

In 2021, healthtech looked like one of Africa’s inevitable technology success stories. The pandemic had forced patients, doctors, hospitals and insurers to experiment with digital healthcare almost overnight.