Affordable Healthcare for Africa: Jayesh Saini’s Vision for the Future

  In every emergency, leadership is tested twice, first by the crisis itself, and then by what the organisation learns from it. Across Africa, where healthcare systems are constantly tested by epidemics, infrastructure failures, and resource shortages, the difference between panic and preparedness often lies in one word: coordination. That is the cornerstone of Jayesh Saini ’s health leadership philosophy, building hospitals and teams that don’t just survive crises but evolve through them. His mission is to make leadership itself a system, not an individual act of heroism. When Chaos Becomes the Teacher The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the fragility of healthcare institutions worldwide. For many African hospitals, the lesson was painful but clear: preparedness cannot be improvised. Systems must be built before stress tests arrive. Saini understood this long before the world’s attention turned to resilience. Within the Lifecare hospital network , he began institution...