For hospitals
Your own lab.
Without learning it the hard way.
We establish point-of-care surgical planning and 3D printing inside your hospital, and stay with you while it grows. We have already done it at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Why in-house
Days instead of weeks. Data inside your walls. Revenue on your books.
Time
Overseas bureaus typically take weeks. An in-house lab plans and prints in days, which is what trauma and tumour cases need.
Data
Patient scans are processed inside the hospital. Identifiable data never has to leave the building or the country.
Revenue
Planning and printing become billable hospital services. In one published cost model, a lab broke even at about 63 models or guides a year.
Breakeven estimate: Ballard 2020, Acad Radiol, using US theatre costs. We model it on your own figures in the readiness assessment.
In-house against outsourced
Hospitals that plan in-house do it faster and for less.
In-house planning for jaw reconstruction took significantly less time and cost significantly less than a commercial service, with no difference in bone healing or wound complications.
Block 2024, Head Neck; 29 patients with oral cancerflap success with an in-house planning and guide workflow, the reconstruction matching the plan with no significant deviation.
Moe 2021, J Oral Maxillofac Surg; 26 patientsmedian hospital stay with virtual planning against none, at a similar total cost, even when planning was bought from a commercial provider.
Mazzola 2020, Oral Oncol; 138 patientsThe same study that found in-house planning cheaper also found commercial plans slightly more precise on some measurements. That is why training, validation and a quality system are part of every lab we build.
Why now, in Kenya
Kenya's health system is already pointing this way.
SHA pays a fixed package
The Social Health Authority reimburses specialised surgery as a fixed tariff: KES 224,000 for mandibulectomy or maxillectomy with a microvascular bone graft, KES 308,000 for orthognathic surgery, KES 291,200 for scoliosis correction. Under a fixed tariff, every hour of theatre saved is margin the hospital keeps.
Tariffs for Healthcare Services, Social Health Insurance Act, Legal Notice 56 of 2025, as amended to 8 May 2026.
Services still leave the country
In September 2025 the Ministry of Health gazetted 36 services not available in Kenya, with treatment abroad funded up to KES 500,000 per beneficiary. For joint replacement it cited a lack of implant availability and limited prosthesis access. Patient-specific planning and manufacturing at home is how that list gets shorter.
Gazette Notice No. 13369, 18 September 2025.
Patient data stays in Kenya
The Digital Health Act allows personal health information to be shared outside Kenya only for the purposes of health tourism. An in-house lab keeps planning, and the scans it depends on, inside the hospital.
Digital Health Act, 2023, section 47; Digital Health (Health Information Management Procedures) Regulations, 2025.
Local manufacturing is national policy
Kenya imported KES 92.9 billion of health products in 2022 and exported KES 12.2 billion. The national strategy aims to raise use of local manufacturing capacity by 70%, and public procurement gives local goods a 6 to 20% margin of preference.
Health Products and Technologies Local Manufacturing Strategy 2026 to 2030, Ministry of Health.
How it works
One partner, from first conversation to a working service.
Readiness assessment
Your case mix, imaging, space and priorities, with a financial model on your numbers.
Set up
The right equipment for your specialties, installed and commissioned.
Quality system
A documented quality system aligned to ISO 13485, with surgeon sign-off built in.
Train and validate
Your team trained on your equipment; accuracy verified before the first clinical case; first cases run together.
Grow
Ongoing planning support, overflow capacity, and new specialties as your surgeons ask for them.
Reference site
Kenyatta National Hospital.
East Africa's largest public referral hospital. Our planning and printing service runs there on real patients, in jaw surgery, orthopaedics and cardiac work, under a written quality system.
What your hospital gets
| Speed | Cases planned and printed in days, not weeks |
|---|---|
| Safety | Surgeon sign-off before anything reaches theatre |
| Reach | Jaw, dental, orthopaedic, spine, cardiac and tumour cases from one service |
| Evidence | Every case logged, ready for audit and for your surgeons' publications |
Start with a readiness assessment.
A site visit and a written report: what your case mix supports, what it costs, and how long it takes.