Solar energy is increasingly being recognized as a vital solution for improving health outcomes, particularly in remote and underserved areas. Solar for Health initiatives involve deploying solar power systems to healthcare facilities, ensuring a reliable and sustainable energy source. This energy can power essential medical equipment, provide lighting for nighttime operations, and ensure the continuous refrigeration of vaccines and medicines. By reducing dependence on unreliable grid electricity or expensive diesel generators, solar power enhances the operational capacity of health facilities, leading to better patient care and outcomes. Additionally, solar energy is environmentally friendly, reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare operations and promoting broader public health benefits.

WHEN develops financial mechanisms to support the solarization of health facilities in emerging markets, with a mission to combat energy poverty and improve women’s healthcare outcomes. By financing low-cost and high-quality solar power systems in local clinics and Centers of Excellence, WHEN ensures that these facilities have a reliable and sustainable source of electricity. This enables health workers to perform critical tasks, such as nighttime surgeries, powering medical equipment, connecting to internet and maintaining the cold chain for vaccines and medicines. This enhances the quality of healthcare services but also reduces operational costs by eliminating reliance on expensive and polluting diesel generators in off-grid communities.

WHEN also provides training and support to local communities to maintain and operate the solar systems, ensuring long-term sustainability. Through its efforts, WHEN is significantly improving health infrastructure in underserved regions, fostering resilience and better health outcomes for vulnerable populations.

Global Hospital Solar Surgery is an award-winning product designed by Global Hospital team to facilitate safe surgery in low-resource settings. It can be used to power any essential medical equipment up and beyond an entire operating room – ultimately improving outcomes and safety for patients, protecting expensive medical equipment, reducing operational costs for hospitals, and decreasing carbon footprints in the community.

Providing enough solar power to run any operating room, and surge protection for all the equipment in use, Solar Surgery stores surplus energy in a battery and seamlessly integrates it when needed. Even after dark, the surgical team will have more than 8 hours of normal usage before the system will finally revert to the hospital grid supply.

Installed by qualified engineers who provide local training, and with a three-year warranty, the Solar Surgery system is a ‘plug and play’ solution to crippling
power outages.