Tecmed Africa
TECMED AFRICA
Company History
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Founded in 1992, Tecmed Africa has evolved into a leading provider of medical equipment and supplies in Africa. In addition to an impressive portfolio of leading international manufacturers within the medical technology sector, Tecmed Africa develops and manufactures their own range of accessories and products. These have been specifically developed for the South African conditions and customer requirements.

Tecmed Africa has now emerged as the leading supplier of state-of-the-art, superior medical solutions to Sub-Saharan Africa, often equipping entire hospitals in the region. We now have branch offices and joint vneture agreements in Southern and Eastern Africa

Our consulting service include all areas of hospital and clinic design on architectural and building configuration, systems development and application training. Tecmed Africa illustrates its dedication to customers and after sales service with factory trained technical and support staff, 24 hours, seven days a week back up service. Application training specialists, preventative maintenance agreements and performance upgrades to systems and equipment are also part of our outstanding services.


To our valued customers

Looking back over the past 17-years, I would like to pay tribute to and thank the customers, principals and staff who have contributed to the success story of Tecmed Africa. It has been an exciting road of ups and downs, competing against all odds, especially the large International corporate conglomerates with unlimited budgets that are at their disposal. Today, we stand proud, with our new BEE partners properly constituted in-line with the vision of what a true South African company should be. We give equal opportunities to all staff, no matter what background and boast with a number of fully qualified lady engineers, demonstrating the fruits of our vision. Our broad diverse range of suppliers & equipment makes us a unique company within the market, specializing in all the ranges that we cover. But, also being flexible to supply and equip hospitals with turn-key solutions within the Tecmed Africa family. This equipment varies from Surgical instruments to the MRI units or a fully compatible Oncology centres with linear accelerators, using multi-leaf collimator techniques & IMRT.

Tecmed Africa is privileged to represent a large range of principals, which are internationally recognized as being blue-chip companies and leaders in the medical fraternity. We have become leaders in technology with a proven track record of success in diagnosing and treating of patients. It is our company's philosophy using the team of product specialists that we employ, to make sure that the customer gets the very best of service, both in technical and application training. This is then carried right throughout the lifespan of the equipment. Using this recipe we have become the market leaders in Ultrasound with an approximate market share of 60%, being the only company to have ever recieved the frost and sullivan award twice in a row. We are extremely proud when considering the competiveness of this market.

Household names such as Toshiba, Olympus, CarestreamlKodak and Varian have been our long-term partners in setting gold standards within our industry, boasting of countless installations throughout the African Continent with years of faultless service to the customer & patient. Using this relationship we have joined hands in launching and pioneering exciting new products and treatments into our market, such as Radiation Surgery, Neuro-Navigation techniques, GreenLight laser surgery for the treatment of BPH (Benign Prostate Hyperplasia) and many other products which have undoubtedly improved the lives of the patients treated and assisted the doctors who have used them in accomplishing their objectives.

Tecmed Africa is excited to go forward as a new company, utilizing the strengths of our products and people, remembering that it is this combination that constitutes a successful company. We, as the management of Tecmed Africa, dedicate our resources and products to you our customers as we grow to be the biggest and most effective medical company in Southern Africa. Our vision is to make sure that everyone at Tecmed Africa, meets all your expectations in fulfilling your needs as the end-user, and then in turn pass this level onto the betterment of the patient, who ultimately is the one who is of concern to all of us.

Intro

Tecmed Africa 2009