WellaHealth: Using Research and Data to Provide Accessible Healthcare

Dr Ikpeme Neto, popularly known as Doc Neto is a medical doctor and health economist with over 10 years of experience in the health sector. He is also the founder of WellaHealth, a company that provides affordable healthcare financing options to improve healthcare access and quality across Africa.

We talked about:

• How WellaHealth is making quality healthcare affordable

• Why collaboration is more beneficial than competition

• Nigerians’ relationship with insurance

• Building trust among their clients in a low trust society

• The ups and downs of running WellaHealth

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ikpemeneto 

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/docneto 

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iwalolaa/ 

• Twitter: twitter.com/IwalolaSobowale

• YouTube: youtube.com/@iwalolasobowale 

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In this episode we cover:

0:00 Intro 

1:28 Icebreaker 

6:16 Dr Neto's background 

7:26 Who and what influenced him

10:50 His political views and how politics affects healthcare  

14:28 His career highlights 

16:22 What WellaHealth does

17:35 How WellaHealth came about

19:08 Running WellaHealth and building the team

22:44 How WellaHealth manages to remain affordable

23:24 Doc Neto’s view on competition

26:32 How Nigerians view insurance 

30:55 How WellaHealth is solving the insurance trust problem in Nigeria

32:50 What healthcare is like in Nigeria 

35:20 His research on the mental health of Nigerian founders 

37:35 Some of WellaHealth's biggest achievements 

38:36 The vision for WellaHealth 

39:24 Challenges the business has faced 

41:07 Where to learn more about Doc Neto amd WellaHealth 

41:42 Dr Neto's advice for fellow industry players 

43:37 Outro

We referenced:

WellaHealth

Africa’s Business Heroes

Shuttlers 

National Health Accounts

Nigerian Bureau of Statistics 

Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey

Previous Episodes

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2. Is Data the Answer to Nigeria's Problems? 

Until next time, stay curious!

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