How students sponsored by Equity Bank own and operate Equity Afia clinics

The Equity Afia clinics are among the most popular medical facilities in the country, known for quality, affordable outpatient services.

These facilities are known to be well-resourced and equipped to offer comprehensive outpatient services, including consultation, emergency care, diagnostic services, pharmaceutical services and specialist services, including physiotherapy, minor outpatient surgery, and nutrition counselling among others.

The Equity Afia medical centres were first launched in 2015 under the Equity Group Foundation’s (EGF) Health pillar as a response to the growing need for affordable and accessible quality healthcare for Kenyans.

While they are perceived to be owned by Equity Bank, the truth is that the Equity Afia clinics are owned and run by individual medical professionals who are alumni of the Equity Leaders Program (ELP), a Equity Group-led training program for high-performing Kenyan students.

The medical professionals supported include doctors, nurses, pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists, dentists and oral health officers, lab technologists, sonographers, and optometrists.

The clinics use a franchise model, where the Equity Group Foundation provides support to Equity Leaders Program medical entrepreneurs by mentoring them and providing them with the resources and structure to run their own clinics.

Equity Afia provides standardized healthcare across its network. The consultation fee for a general doctor is a consistent Sh500 at all locations while a specialist consultation fee is a standard Sh1,500.

Currently, Equity Afia runs 147 medical centres across the 47 counties and has served over 4.3 million customers.

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Some of its branches are in Ongata Rongai, Kawangware, Kasarani, Lodwar, Kayole, Thika, Ruiru, Nyeri, Nakuru, Kahawa West, Kapenguria, Utawala, Karatina, and Kitale among others.

About Equity Leaders Program (ELP)

The Equity Leaders Program (ELP) is a rigorous leadership development program under the Equity Group Foundation.

The program targets top-performing Kenyan students who are exposed to a high-performing environment and trained in their respective areas of study.

Each year, Equity Bank develops a selection criterion for new scholars based on various performance including general KCSE performance, distribution of Equity Bank branches, performance of graduating Wings to Fly scholars, and performance categories i.e. top nationally, top in county and top in sub-county.

The selected students are then sponsored and trained is some of the best universities both locally and internationally.

ELP scholars who wish to study abroad are taken through a month-long residential training program that covers critical thinking, college application processes and exposure to what global universities have to offer.

After the pre-university internships, the scholars join various universities abroad. During the long break, they get an opportunity to apply back to the bank for a paid internship, which is made available based on the business need.

So far, over 891 scholars have secured admission in over 209 leading global universities across 35 different countries. ELP graduates from these institutions have proceeded to have fulfilling careers in leading global institutions in the fields of Finance, Health, IT, among others.