Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Nigeria's Medsaf, SA's Iyeza Health with $10k each
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The prizes were handed out at the sixth Seedstars Summit held last Friday (6 April) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The development will include building an android version of the platform and improving the integration of the platform’s tracking and monitoring capability Nzima started the business in 2015 with two bicycles delivering medication to those in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town. The platform, says Nzima has “opened quite a few doors” as it’s allowed the business to scale to the rest of the country and has also served as a management tool for example by leaving an audit trail of medications delivered. Adams told Ventureburn by email that the business has 18 contract clients and has delivered over 590 000 parcels to date. He said the startup has contracts with the private-sector where it delivers medication nationwide and a provincial sub-contract servicing 44 clinics.