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By Ross Moyo
For a company celebrating 30 years, the easy route is cake, fireworks and branding. NetOne chose kiosks.
The OneHealth rollout redefines what a telco anniversary can mean: Instead of lavish celebrations, investment in people. Instead of coverage maps, care maps.
By bringing services closer to villages, the partners aim to ease barriers where accessing medical attention can require long journeys, transport money and time away from work.
It aligns with SDG 3 (Good Health), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 17 (Partnerships). But more importantly, it aligns with a simple truth repeated by Mushanawani in Mhangura: “A healthy nation is a productive nation, and a connected nation is a competitive nation. Telemedicine is not the future; it is the present.”
If the first 10 tuk-tuks succeed, the next 90 will take clinics to every district. That is a 30th anniversary worth remembering.
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