Yohans Emiru

Overview

Yohans is the founder of Telemed Medical Services. He has vast experience in Adult Maternal and Child Health and has worked in various government hospitals in capacities ranging from being a resident GP to managing a regional hospital and a Higher Clinic as the Medical Director. After completing his medical education at the School of Medicine at the Addis Ababa University he moved to Kebridhar a remote town in the Ogaden of the Somali Region in Ethiopia to work in a government hospital. It was during this time that he observed first hand the significant limitations in health infrastructures in Ethiopia and became passionately interested in using technology to optimize existing human and physical health resources. His goal became to use technology to unlock access to medical and health related services for the Ethiopian population. Prior to his work with Telemed he founded and was the senior editor of www.addishealth.com a website dedicated to providing localized medical information on topics such as Pregnancy Parenting Nutrition and Fitness in Ethiopia's local languages.