Eight Medical is an end-to-end platform that identifies and connects urgent and emergency medical resources like hospitals, ambulances, personnel, information and credit, to users in need within 10 minutes or less.
Founded in 2021, Eight Medical aims to enable access to essential care for Africa’s 1.5 billion people.
“We are able to achieve this by leveraging a robust and efficient network of individuals, ambulances and technology to provide ambulance response, ambulance transport and ambulance standby services to our users. Think of us as the “Uber + 911” for Africa,” Ibukun Tunde-Oni, founder and CEO of Eight Medical, told Disrupt Africa.
Nine out of 10 Africans lack access to urgent and emergency medical services, which results in five million unnecessary deaths annually due to preventable and avoidable causes, such as road traffic accidents, cardiac arrest. maternal, child and climate-related emergencies.
Eight Medical aims to address these challenges, with Tunde-Ono saying uptake has been “great” thus far.
“We are gradually becoming a household name across the various industries we serve,” he said.
Funded by both angels and VCs, Eight Medical also recently took part in the ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator programme, banking further capital and access to expertise.
“We make money from three major services – which are ambulance standbys, ambulance transport, and emergency response. For these services, we charge both transactional, pay-as-you-go fees, and payments on subscription base,” said Tunde-Ono.
“We operate in Nigeria and plan to extend our service across a few African countries and possibly the UK over the coming months.”
