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GE and Philips Scan Africa Medical Market (Financial Times)

March 11, 2015

In an article about Africa's emerging medical equipment market, Amanda Glassman is cited regarding health investments by some African country governments that don't actually improve health quickly. 

From the article:

Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy at the Centre for Global Development in the US, points to “huge maintenance problems” with lab equipment in some African countries.

She says: “There’s a lot of bad purchasing on the public sector side in Africa. Governments can get stuck with investments that really don’t improve health quickly.”

Read the article here.