Ghana’s Sangu Delle revolutionizes healthcare in Africa with CarePoint

By : Melchior Koba

Date : mardi, 16 mai 2023 10:44

He is a successful entrepreneur and investor who owns an investment holding focused on African tech firms. One of his companies, CarePoint, has become a reference in the African health sector. 

Sangu Delle (photo) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, investor, and author. He is the founder and CEO of CarePoint, a state-of-the-art healthcare company, which owns over 65 healthcare facilities in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

He earned a Master of Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard. He also has a Master's in international human rights law from Oxford University, and holds a doctorate in economic anthropology and African studies from the University of Birmingham.

CarePoint was formerly known as Africa Health Holdings Ltd. It operates six brands, Seha Healthcare, Lily Hospitals, CarePoint, Meridian Health Group, Rabito Clinic, and My Care Mobile in its operating countries. With more than 1,500 patients treated, more than 10,000 patients reached through telemedicine and more than 5,000 surgeries and essential procedures performed, the company employs 1,993 people and is one of the leaders in the sector in Africa.

Sangu Delle is also the founder and executive chairman of Golden Palm Investments, a pan-African venture capital firm focused on supporting leading African entrepreneurs who are leveraging digital technologies to solve some of the major challenges facing the African continent.

He is also the co-founder and president of Cleanacwa, a nonprofit which works to bring clean water to Ghana's least developed areas. The Eisenhower Fellow is a member of YPO, a global community of leaders, and the director of mPharma, a healthtech company that improves access to medicines. 

A TED Fellow and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sangu Delle was voted Young Person of the Year by Future Awards Africa in 2014. In 2015, he was named one of the 30 most promising African entrepreneurs by Forbes Magazine. Some four years later, New African Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Africans.

The 2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader is the co-author of "Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa." He has also presented TED talks on mental health, gender equality, and African macro-finance.

Melchior Koba

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