MONROVIA – TopUPCare, a US-based firm, and Wellness Partners, a Liberian-based
specialist clinic, have signed a partnership to provide prepaid healthcare services in
Liberia.
Under the partnership, Liberians home and abroad can subscribe to TopUpCare’s
health packages, go for cancer screening, or treatment at Wellness Partners Clinic,
located in Congo Town Back Road.
“Having this system that TopUpCare has created, allows family members in the US to
pay in advance for crucial preventive care that their loved ones back home in Liberia
are in need of,” said Dr. Nicole Cooper, Wellness Partners’ CEO /Medical Director at the
signing ceremony recently.
“Knowing that your family members are entitled to a certain level of quality care at a
well-known, reputable clinic is such an excellent idea. It also helps prevent their
family members’ healthcare condition from getting worse,” Dr. Cooper added.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, TopUpCare was established in 2023, to promote
preventive healthcare and early detection of chronic diseases and cancer. People who
subscribe to the firm’s packages are provided access to consults and opinions from
both domestic and specialist doctors through TopUpCare’s telemedicine portal.
Wellness Partners offers maternal health, surgery and family medicine. It also offers
laboratory, imaging (X-ray and ultrasound), and pharmacy delivery services.
Earlier this year, Wellness Partners added overnight care, including urgent
consultations and short-stay observation up to 72 hours.
Once a person purchases a TopUpCare package, the user is entitled to the listed
services in the subscription package at Wellness Partners Clinic (or at another
TopUpCare in network partner clinic), for a period of one year.
Services will also include consultations with other specialist doctors by video or
through an eConsult. TopUpCare will connect their users to these specialists via their
referral management platform and their partnerships with specialist hospitals and
clinics, in Liberia and within the Subregion, specifically Ghana and Nigeria. Such a
service would cut down expenses related to medical tourism.
“In Liberia, we do what they call medical tourism a lot...,”Dr. Cooper said. “But the fact
that we have TopUpCare with specialists in and outside the country, you can have a
consultation or receive a second opinion from these specialists, remotely.”
Kazadi said the partnership’s target audience was Liberians in the United States.
(Remittances from the US to Liberia reached US$689.74 million in 2022, according to
German data company Statista)
He told the signing ceremony there were plans to expand the business to other private
hospitals but first wanted to scale up initial transactions on the platform.
“It is a new concept that we are launching,” Kazadi said. “We want to provide the
healthcare sector in Liberia with innovative technology and develop the domestic
ecosystem of partnerships that we think will lead to higher quality healthcare services
and better health outcomes. Changing the patient experience from receiving
healthcare services from only their primary care physician, to the patient receiving
care led by the primary care physician, who in the background is leveraging insights
and opinions from specialist doctors.”
