DIALYSIS SUPPLY BUILT FOR AFRICAN MARKETS
Structured around your shipping reality, your cost pressure, and your patients.
Running dialysis in Africa means operating in conditions most suppliers have never seen and do not plan for.
Long shipping cycles. Port delays. Currency pressure. Inconsistent cold chain. Limited storage. Regulatory complexity that varies country to country.
And through all of it — patients who need treatment three times a week, without interruption.
Most supply models are not built for this. They are built for markets where freight is predictable and margins are wide. When you import from those models into African conditions, the cost compounds at every step.
The real cost is what happens between the factory and the patient:
• Import duties and port handling on reactive orders
• Emergency procurement when supply cycles fail
• Freight volatility that cannot be passed on to patients
• Exchange rate exposure on long payment cycles
That is where margin disappears. That is where operators feel the strain
Consumable price is rarely the real problem
THE COST REALITY
What we offer African operators
• OEM-approved consumables compatible with Fresenius, Baxter, Nipro, B.Braun, Nikkiso, and others
• Container-scale supply models that reduce per-unit landed cost
• Supply cycles planned around your treatment demand — not a generic shipping schedule
• Logistics structured to reduce exposure to freight volatility
• In-country concentrate production where it reduces cost and supply risk permanently
Founded by a Ugandan. Active across Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa, and West Africa for over 20 years. A few locations where we have worked: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Mauritius, South Africa and more..
We have navigated the bureaucracy, the currencies, the customs delays, and the cross border logistics that others walk away from. Not in theory. In practice.
IF YOU ARE MANAGING DIALYSIS SUPPLY IN AFRICA AND THE ECONOMICS ARE UNDER PRESSURE — LET’S TALK.
Not a sales call. A practical conversation about what your supply structure looks like and where the cost is actually building.
WHAT THIS MEANS IN PRACTICE
SHK Medical was built from inside African operations.
1,000,000+
dialysis sessions supported across African markets.
THE SHK DIFFERENCE
OEM-approved consumables for all major machine platforms — including Fresenius, Baxter, Nipro, B.Braun, and Nikkiso. Questions about compatibility? Start a conversation →
