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Rocket Health appoints Dr. Jacqueline Kitulu As Board Chairperson, Stephen Dimba Odhiambo As Chief Commercial Officer

Press Statement For Immediate Release  Kampala, Uganda 18 January 2022 Rocket Health appoints Dr. Jacqueline Kitulu as board chairperson and ...

Rocket Health Featured As Solution To Uganda’s Healthcare Challenges

Rocket Health has been featured by the Media Challenge Initiative’s Solutions Now Africa newsroom, as an innovation critical to healthcare ...

Rocket Health launches wholesale business unit

Rocket Health has opened a wholesale business unit to address challenges faced by retailers in the healthcare sector.  From a ...

Every Day Is Black Friday At Rocket Health

This November, every day is Black Friday at Rocket Health. Check out mega offers available on skincare products, hair products, ...

Rocket Health’s Sandra Arinaitwe shares insights on marketing in the healthcare sector

Rocket Health’s marketing manager, Sandra Arinaitwe has shared insights into her journey as the brand custodian of Uganda’s pioneer telemedicine ...

”Rocket Health solves challenges of access to healthcare” – Dr. Lillian Nabukeera tells Bukedde

Rocket Health’s Clinical lead, Dr. Lillian Nabukeera Kaliisa explained to Bukedde newspaper how the company uses technology to revolutionise access ...

Dr. Davis Musinguzi Explains To Urban TV Choice Of Rocket Health Clinic In Gayaza

Rocket Health’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Davis Musinguzi has explained that setting up a clinic in Gayaza is part of ...

Rocket Health Launches Clinic In Gayaza

Uganda’s leading telemedicine and digital health provider, Rocket Health, has launched its clinic in Gayaza located along Gayaza – Kalagi ...

Rocket Health designated as a COVID-19 vaccination center

Rocket Health was last month designated by the Ministry of Health as an official COVID-19 vaccination center. The development means ...

Rocket Health’s Dr. John Mark Bwanika calls for increased investment in African start-ups

Rocket Health’s co-founder and head of operations, Dr. John Mark Bwanika has called for a transition from donating money to ...

Rocket Health extends services to small and medium enterprises (FSME-U)

Press Release 22.07.2022 Rocket Health has entered into a partnership withthe Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises Uganda (FSME-U), with ...

Rocket Health joins the American Chamber of Commerce

Rocket Health has joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Uganda (Am Cham), with the objective of harnessing mutual collaborations ...

Rocket Health’s Dr. Davis Musinguzi Wins Entrepreneur Of The Year Award

Rocket Health’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Davis Musinguzi was last week named the Entrepreneur Of The Year, at the 2022 ...

Rocket Health delivers first aid services to students and alumni at Naggalama

Rocket Health provided free first aid services to alumni of St. Joseph’s Senior Secondary School, Naggalama, who were participating in ...

Rocket Health delivers chronic care services using telemedicine model

Press Release Rocket Health successfully completed the implementation of the Making More Health (MMH) Acceleration Project, where it piloted the ...

Rocket Health uses telemedicine model to deliver SRH services for girls and boys

Rocket Health on Wednesday demonstrated how sexual and reproductive health services (SRH) can be accessed by beneficiaries of the ‘In ...

Rocket Health Featured On CNN’s Connecting Africa

Rocket Health’s pioneering role as a telemedicine provider in Africa has been recognised by Salient Advisory, a healthcare consulting firm, ...

Rocket Health Staff Trained On Sexual Harassment At Work

Rocket Health staff were last week trained on preventing and managing sexual harassment at the workplace. The training conducted by ...

Rocket Health featured among Africa’s most inspirational stories

Rocket Health is the leading telemedicine provider in Uganda, providing remote doctor consultations, mobile laboratory services, pharmacy deliveries, and at-home ...

DW showcases Rocket Health as a telemedicine champion

Rocket Health was recognized by Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as one of the providers making a difference in the ...

Tourism: Rocket Health telemedicine services aid COVID-19 recovery in Uganda

Rocket Health successfully completed the PEARL project where it provided telemedicine and last-mile medical services to tourists as part of ...

Rocket Health spokespersons trained by NTV’s Raymond Mujuni

Rocket Health’s spokespersons including the marketing team and members of customer-facing departments have completed a media and communications training facilitated ...

Rocket Health completes Next Health Acceleration Program

Rocket Health successfully completed the Next Health Acceleration Program whose objective was to improve the organisation’s delivery of sexual and ...

Rocket Health’s Sandra Arinaitwe Ranked Among Uganda’s Top 50 Marketers

Rocket Health’s marketing manager, Sandra Arinaitwe has been named as one of the Top 50 people in marketing in Uganda. ...

Here’s why Rocket Health’s Dr. Davis Musinguzi is being celebrated by Airtel

You may have seen the billboard or the hashtag #UGNeedsMoreOfU or the commercial advert playing on your television, calling upon ...

Rocket Health Named Among Top 10 Telehealth Startups in the World

Many healthcare providers were forced to move to telehealth following the COVID-19 pandemic. A McKinsey study showed that its use ...

African Business assesses Rocket Health’s planned expansion to Kenya

Created in 2012 by five co-founders who wanted to solve inefficiencies in Uganda’s local health sector, Rocket Health is also ...

Rocket Health’s growth story told by How We Made It In Africa

“We were very mindful in the beginning about how we designed our software. We wanted to create a channel of ...

Rocket Health’s co-founders Bwanika, Nuwamanya on the value of a shared vision for healthcare

Within minutes of talking to Fiona Nuwamanya or Dr. John Mark Bwanika, it becomes clear why Rocket Health is thriving ...

Dr. Davis Musinguzi shares Rocket Health’s Africa expansion plans with CNBC Africa

Rocket Health’s Sandra Arinaitwe elected Vice President of Marketers body

Rocket Health’s Marketing Manager, Sandra Arinaitwe has been elected Vice President of the Uganda Marketers Society. The win comes hardly ...

Fact sheet: Everything you need to know about Rocket Health’s $5m Series A Funding

As Rocket Health celebrates the close of a $5m fundraising round led by Creadev, we realise that you may have ...

Rocket Health Raises a $5m Series A Funding Round To Accelerate Expansion In East Africa

Press Statement For Immediate Release  Kampala, Uganda 07 March 2022 Rocket Health Raises a $5m Series A Round To Accelerate ...

Rocket Health shines at inaugural Pearl of Africa Customer Excellence Awards

 

New Grant announcement: Testing the effectiveness of using mobile phones to provide Psychotherapy in Uganda.

New Grant announcement: Testing the effectiveness of using mobile phones to provide Psychotherapy in Uganda. Rocket Health, in partnership with ...

Great Discounts this November from Rocket Health

Every day starting 1st to 30th November, Rocket Health, Uganda’s leading telemedicine service provider has discounted offers and prepared treasure ...

Dr Davis Musinguzi Shares the TMCG story on the Desert Island Discs

COVID-Induced Telehealth Boom in East Africa Is Picking Up Pace

Credit: By Adeola Eribake and Suzi Ring – Bloomberg The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological advances in health care, from ...

Insurers Adopt Telehealth to Widen Access to Healthcare

Written by Isaac Khisa July 27th, 2021 Credits: The Independent Globally, insurers have been perceived as slow to evolve and ...

Is Rocket Health the Hero of Tele-medicine?

July 15th, 2021 Credits: MTN Pulse Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to visit your doctor ...

PRESS STATEMENT

COVIDEX Manufacturer Selects Rocket Health as Distribution Coordinator Jena Herbals Uganda Limited led by Professor Patrick Ogwang has selected Rocket ...

Uganda’s Rocket Health Seeks to Tap into Growing Telemedicine Market

Five Innovators and a Whole New Meaning of Telemedicine in Uganda

Written by Ernest Jjingo May 5, 2021 Credits: The Observer Eight years ago, five young medical entrepreneurs introduced the telemedicine ...

African Telemedicine Startups Need Regulation to Reach More Patients

By Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent May 20, 2021   A greater number of startups in sub-Saharan Africa are offering telemedicine ...

Rocket Health launches USSD code *280# for healthcare access.

Rocket Health launches USSD code *280# for healthcare access. Uganda’s leading telemedicine service provider, Rocket Health, has introduced a new ...

Highlights of our 8 year journey

By Ivan Kabandize DISCLAIMER: This article is compiled, without any editing, directly from answers to the questions on Twitter. Errors are unintentional ...

Digitisation Does Not Come Cheap – Dr Musinguzi

Summary: A new report on the future of retail by the Innovation Village, Rocket Health, a direct healthcare consumer company ...

Gig economy: Could it drive job market trends?

A SafeBoda rider sets off to deliver goods from the market to a customer during the lockdown . SafeBoda has ...

Where does your data online end up?

Health Ministry on COVID Charges

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Telemedicine Eases Access to Healthcare in Kampala

Ugandans in need of medical services no longer have to travel distances before they can access care, as more and ...

Doctors Disagree on Telemedicine Services

While Telemedicine is seen by many as a crucial intervention to increase access to universal health coverage in Uganda, regulators ...

Insurer UAP adds Telemedicine to Health Insurance Package

In a memorandum of understanding with a new telemedicine provider The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG), UAP will offer among others ...

Dr. Musinguzi on Building a Telemedicine Company

Evenings in Kampala are mainly for meet-ups. They are the informally allotted time to meet with the people you do ...

Helpful Service Providers: COVID 19 Lockdown

We are too knee deep into lock-down extensions, that we can’t even say how long we have been here, and ...

Introducing Door-to-Door Health Services

In the past two months Faith Nassiwa, a resident of Bugolobi in Kampala has received medical services from a place ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Telehealth

Are you too busy to find time to see a doctor? Or maybe you are in a location that makes ...

Will Telehealth Better Uganda’s Healthcare System?

Telehealth is seen by many as a crucial intervention to increase access to universal health coverage in Uganda.  With limited ...

Coronavirus Presents Lifeline for Digital Healthcare

Even as majority of people seeking healthcare service still prefer physical contact with a doctor, Uganda’s private sector pioneers in ...