Nigeria’s healthcare system is broken. Who fills the gaps?

Ask anyone who’s had to call for emergency help in Lagos what happened next, and you’ll get a version of the same story: a number that sometimes takes forever to connect, a dozen calls, and then a miraculous person with a car or who knows someone who does. Ambulances exist,  but nothing coordinates them .
Medwaka’s founders ran into this problem from the other direction. They started out trying to solve blood donation shortages for pregnant women in Ondo State, and kept hitting the same wall: nobody could get from the point of distress to the point of care . So they rebuilt the company around solving that instead: a dispatch and coordination layer sitting on top of hospitals, ambulanc...