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Can corporate innovation unlock affordable, quality health care for South Africa’s poorest workers?

By Leigh Morgan and Keely Stevenson

CareCross Health, an innovative healthcare company in South Africa, thinks the answer is an emphatic “yes!” The company’s pioneering approach is exactly why Bamboo Finance invested over 6M USD in CareCross Health to catalyze growth, profitability and social impact.

Launched in 2008, OscaCare the now represents 10% of the total CareCross Health division’s revenues, and this figure is expected to grow. 16,000 low-income workers who never had private healthcare before are now covered under the OcsaCare scheme and access a network of 1300 GPs and 4,000 associated healthcare professionals throughout South Africa.

Find out how vision and commitment combined to unlock a model of corporate innovation that demonstrates the growing opportunity to deliver goods and services profitably to low income markets.

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