Sensible Health (Pty) Ltd is located in South Africa focused on improving patient of care.The primary focus is improving the current diagnostic methods wit urine collection as the focal area. Urine is an important diagnostic tool for measuring health and well-being of patients. The clinical information obtained from a urine specimen is influenced by the collection method, timing and handling.
However, despite the importance of urine samples, their method of collection is very seldom conducted within the required protocols of hygiene and sterility. This leads to high levels of contamination
The current method (globally) of urine collection is one of the few remaining techniques unchanged over several centuries. Even the simple dipstick tests conducted in a surgery or hospital setting, can yield unreliable results
Latest research from the Microbiology Association of America reveals that contamination rates are approximately 33% to 45%.
Sensible Health (Pty) Ltd has developed the first and only integrated ‘sterile’ urine testing device in the market, which completes the ecosystem from a point of care testing to laboratory.
It has a Global Patent and Copy Right protection to its design, functionality and performance in the point of care urinalysis market.
The device enables one to obtain a true mid-stream urine sample with more convenience than any existing product on the market thus reducing cross-contamination and resistance rates compared to current sampling systems.
Dr Akhil Desai is a high performance, versatile and commercially astute healthcare executive offering a fifteen year career of impressive successes in healthcare as a clinician, academic, leader and innovator/entrepreneur.
He is a General Practitioner who holds special interests in aesthetics. He has substantial international teaching and consulting experience and a global reputation as a healthcare innovation and innovation management specialist. He is widely known and his current work focuses on the role of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the transformation of health and healthcare.
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