Proparco to Work With Tibu Health To Improve Kenyan Healthcare Access
Posted on : Monday , 6th July 2026
Proparco is pleased to announce that Tibu Health, a Kenyan healthtech start-up, will receive funding. The money, awarded through the Bridge Fund by Digital Africa facility, will help expedite the development of its proximity integrated clinics and enhance access to healthcare for marginalized populations.
Jason Carmichael founded Tibu Health, a Kenyan start-up focused on providing accessible and reasonably priced basic healthcare, in 2020. The company mainly targets middle-class and underprivileged populations with its affordable, high-quality medical services.
Since 2024, the start-up has been establishing a network of embedded clinics termed “Minute Clinics”, incorporated within existing facilities, principally pharmacies through its relationship with Goodlife or within supermarkets. In order to provide specialist services like medical imaging, pediatrics, gynecology, laboratory testing and telemedicine, these embedded care facilities rely on a central clinic.
By quickly replicating high-quality primary care infrastructure throughout urban and peri-urban areas, this "hub-and-spoke" strategy directly addresses the gaps that lead to preventable self-medication, one of the most enduring public health issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tibu Health now operates ten “Embedded Clinics” in four counties in Kenya including Nairobi and wants to extend its network in the next months to increase access to primary healthcare services.
The company has given out 2,500 vaccines along with more than 45,000 diagnosis since its founding.
“We are pleased to endorse Tibu Health, a forward-thinking business that is revolutionizing primary healthcare access via an accessible and reasonably priced proximity-based model. By combining mini-clinics embedded within pharmacies with a centralized medical hub, Tibu Health enables thousands of people especially among middle- and lower income communities to obtain important, high-quality healthcare services. This investment demonstrates Proparco's dedication to creative and inclusive healthcare solutions that can sustainably increase underprivileged urban population’s access to care.” said by Djalal Khimdjee the Deputy CEO of Proparco
“Expanding access to basic healthcare at scale means embedding care inside the infrastructure people routinely use. Our hub-and-spoke model, which connects community-level Minute Clinics to a centralized hub that provides specialized diagnostics and telemedicine, was created specifically for that purpose: to provide reliable, high-quality care in a financially viable manner throughout urban and peri-urban communities. With Proparco's help, we can expedite that growth and show that this approach is feasible for developing markets.” The Executive Chairman of TIBU Health, Jason Carmichael, stated.
