Medical supplies hub to focus on ‘Made in Africa by Africans’, while the African Export-Import Bank will facilitate transactions and provide credit
AU special envoy Strive Masiyiwa says it's a simple platform to supply critical medical items to African states in needAn Africa medical supplies portal, a single continental marketplace which allows countries to access critical medical supplies, will ensure that the continent is not at the back of the queue for critical life-saving supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Through the portal African countries will be able to directly source supplies from manufacturers in the necessary quantities and at competitive prices. The portal will sell Covid-19 vaccines once they are available.Moussa Faki said priority would be given to African suppliers, but there were not enough on the continent, which had lead to countries buying from China.
He said connecting manufacturers and suppliers with governments directly removed the “middle man” in supply chain processes that too often became the doorway to corrupt practices such as inflated prices and large agent management fees.
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