Chief Technology Health Officers
South Africa’s innovation profile is supported by global indicators such as the Good Country Index, where it ranks 18th out of 163 countries for Science & Technology—but in the area of medical technologies, South Africa has traditionally been a distributor market.
“The main product areas in terms of value is general consumables, diagnostic imaging, and then orthopedics and prosthetics,” says of SAMED, which represents over 160 medical device companies that serve a market expected to grow from U$72 million in 2018 to U$99 million by 2022. “Our market ties in quite nicely with our disease burden,” she adds, “because diagnostics is needed for TB and HIV,
