South Africa & Africa More Broady: Whats The State of Medical Device Regulation?
It\u2019s September, it\u2019s time for school and a new season of Faces of digital health podcast episodes. Faces of digital health strives to bring you an insight into digital health development across the world. We\u2019re going to start this season in Africa. In this episode, South African entrepreneur, regulatory, and quality assurance consultant Herve Mwamba discusses the state of medical device regulation in South Africa and Africa more broadly, his observations about the consequences and problems related to the European Medical Device Regulation, his observation regarding innovation in Africa.\xa0\n\nThis is the first of a few episodes where speakers talked about the African market, so do make sure to subscribe to the show to be notified about other episodes automatically. In the next episode you\u2019ll hear about chronic disease management in Kenya and Ghana, provided by Medtronic Labs, and after that, a discussion about the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and how that can be improved with the rise of at-home testing.\nTRANSCRIPT: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/medical-device-regulation-mdr-africa \nBTW - did you read our newsletter yet? We finally have one!\xa0It only comes out monthly, filled with information about insights in the last month. Do check it out here:\nNewsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/\n\nwww.facesofdigitalhealth.com\nwww.lovethepodcast.com/facesofdigitalhealth