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
Emergency procurement typically costs 20–40% more than planned orders. For a 10-station clinic running 6,240 sessions annually, that adds over USD 6,800 per year to supply cost — before freight volatility and currency exposure are counted.
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. Built from inside East African healthcare operations — where port delays, currency pressure, and customs disputes are not theoretical risks. They are weekly operational realities.
Active across Sub-Saharan, East, and West Africa for over 25 years. Markets we have worked in: Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Mauritius, South Africa, and more.
We have navigated the tariff classification disputes, the reimbursement gaps, and the cross-border logistics that most suppliers walk away from. Not in theory. In practice.
IF YOU ARE MANAGING DIALYSIS SUPPLY IN AFRICA AND THE ECONOMICS ARE UNDER PRESSURE —DOWNLOAD THE AFRICA MARKET INTELLIGENCE REPORT.
Describe your shipping environment. We will design a supply model around it.
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? MARKET INTELLIGENCE REPORT→
