By Prince Acquah
GNA Special Correspondent, Casablanca
Casablanca, May 03, GNA – Hundreds of renowned leaders in health care, investors, start-ups and exhibitors have converged in the Moroccan city of Casablanca for the transformative GITEX Future Health Africa conference, which opens on Monday, May 4.
Under the high patronage King Mohammed VI, who is a staunch advocate of African health sovereignty, the ambitious initiative aims to revolutionise Africa’s ailing healthcare system to put people first in health care delivery.
The three-day event will feature scientific conferences, panel discussions, specialised workshops.
There will also be an exhibition and innovation space aimed at leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), telemedicine and other digital technologies to advance health care in Africa.
Discussions on continental health care policies and regulations, explore more effective and sustainable healthcare financial models, and focus attention on building a more humanistic health system using data, design and digital empathy will take centre stage.
Global health leaders, African Ministers of Health, government officials, international institutions, scientific experts, industry representatives, innovators, investment funds and other participants, will thus deliberate the theme: “Digitising Africa’s healthcare future: Essential care advancing with AI.”
The conference is the initiative of KOAUN International, the Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health (FM6SS), and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Morocco.
On Monday, the conference will deal with health sovereignty, financing Universal Health Coverage, multilateral health policy alignment across Africa, policy and regulations for a PAN African health system, and epidemiological intelligence and policy decentralisation.
Tuesday will discuss operational resilience, next generation hospital designs, core digital infrastructure, infrastructure security, AI- diagnostics intelligence, lab technology, and Pathology and Teleradiology.
The conference will be crowned on Wednesday with a focus on integrated care strategy, data governance and interoperability, patient experience intelligence, human-machine collaboration, workforce retention, ethical and AI in healthcare.
Meanwhile, the event is hosting hundreds of exhibitors from Morocco, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Gabon, Senegal, DR Congo, Egypt, Serbia, France, Germany, Pakistan, China, Austria, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, South Korea, USA, India, Jordan, Hong Kong, among others.
Announcing the launch of the conference during the third edition of the annual GITEX AFRICA Morocco in 2025, Mr. Amine Tehraoui, Morocco’s Minister of Health and Social Protection, was optimistic that it would propel the establishment of a futuristic health system.
“GITEX FUTURE HEALTH AFRICA/Morocco embodies the Kingdom’s unwavering commitment to health as a fundamental and universal human right, enshrined in our national vision for health system reform,” he stated.
“As digital innovation, data intelligence, and health tech increasingly shape the future of care delivery across Africa, this platform reinforces Morocco’s position as a regional hub for collaboration, talent, and investment.”
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey/ Beatrice Asamani Savage
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