The Kindredd blog
The everyday problems patients and health workers live with in South Africa, across Africa and around the world, with the numbers behind them and what can be done.
Only 39% of patients' past records could be found in one rural South African study.
6%
chance three clinics can all find your folder
Kindredd puts your history on your phone.
University of the Western Cape. Our calculation.
"Start from the beginning again": what lost records cost patients.
Read the article
When minutes matter.
One continent, too few doctors.
The WhatsApp ward.
Paying twice: what it costs families and medical schemes.
Referred, then lost.
The handover on a scrap of paper.
The doctor who never goes home: Naz's story from Nigeria.
The 4am queue at public clinics in South Africa and across Africa.
The folder in the cupboard.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons. Each article credits its photographer. On this page also: Covenant Olusegun (CC BY-SA 4.0).