You Can Never Build Enough Hospitals | Dr Sabine Kapasi | Healthcare AI

You can build the buildings. You cannot build the workforce fast enough to fill them. Dr Sabine Kapasi on what that means for access. Book Ian for your event → iankhan.com | booking@iankhan.com SUMMARY Dr Sabine Kapasi has run public health projects across sub-Saharan Africa and now leads Enira Consulting and ROPAN Healthcare. She explains why infrastructure alone never closes the access gap, why workforce is the binding constraint, and how her work reaches 20 million people, most of whom will never become patients. KEY FINDINGS • You can never build enough hospitals to meet demand • Even where buildings exist, the workforce to staff them does not • Building a health workforce takes time that infrastructure spending cannot shortcut • Public health projects delivered across sub-Saharan Africa • Roughly 20 million patients reached globally • 20 million more people who, with prevention, never become patients at all • Why systems thinking beats facility thinking in low-resource settings • Where technology genuinely substitutes for scarce clinical capacity NOTABLE QUOTES "You can never make enough hospitals, is what I've realised." — Dr Sabine Kapasi "You are never going to have enough doctors." — Dr Sabine Kapasi GUEST Dr Sabine Kapasi, Enira Consulting & ROPAN Healthcare FULL TRANSCRIPT iankhan.com/futurist/sabine-kapasi-health-access-workforce Recorded at HLTH 2025 for The Futurist. ──────────────────── ABOUT IAN KHAN — HEALTHCARE AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER Most AI keynotes end with a