THE YOUNGEST MEDICAL ENTREPRENEUR- PATRICK FYNN

<p>Meet Patrick Fynn&comma; a medical practitioner and a writer&comma; who has  interests in the various sectors of the economy&period; Be inspired by his story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Tell us a bit about your self &quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My name is Patrick Fynn&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a medical practitioner and writer with interest in health&comma; social&comma; political  and inspirational topics among others&period; I lead a clinical team at StandOut Care to provide public health screening services&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a fellow of the <em>Young African Leaders Initiative &lpar;YALI&rpar;&comma; West Africa&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;I&&num;8217&semi;m brand ambassador for the <em>National Student Awards &lpar;NSA Ghana&rpar;&comma; Dignity Diner and UrbRide&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What stimulated your interest in entrepreneurship and why did you choose this particular work&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My inspiration for entrepreneurship has been born out of the zeal to make the most of the things I&&num;8217&semi;m passionate about&comma; prospects that I have committed time to develop for myself&period; I see it as an opportunity to create enterprises out of what I can do best&period; I have always had an intrinsic motivation to find solutions to problems as an individual or together with others&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In my work as a medic I have seen people either  lose their lives or the  quality of it as a result of diseases they simply could have nipped in the bud&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;So I thought to myself  <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;If people won&&num;8217&semi;t see a doctor because the hospital is not readily accessible or too expensive&comma; then why not take it to them in the most affordable way&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What are some of the services you provide&quest; Any memorable project &lpar;s&rpar; so far&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At StandOut Care we run a mobile clinic and a community-based health screening program<br &sol;>&NewLine;We do but not limited to&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Public Health Education<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weighing and BMI Check<br &sol;>&NewLine;Blood Pressure Check<br &sol;>&NewLine;Blood Sugar Estimation<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rapid Diagnostic tests for Malaria<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hepatitis B<br &sol;>&NewLine;General consultation<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mass deworming<br &sol;>&NewLine;Breast cancer screening<br &sol;>&NewLine;HIV&sol;AIDS Voluntary Counselling and Testing &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We have provided services for market squares&comma; churches&comma; schools&comma; clubs&comma; communities in the Greater Accra&comma; Ashanti&comma; Central and Volta Regions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What are some of the untapped places you think your project could be deployed in&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are people outside the cities&comma; far away in the hinterlands who we&&num;8217&semi;re very much concerned about&period; These deprived areas need our services the most&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Do you think entrepreneurship is the solution to some of the problems on the continent&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If we can retain economic dominance&comma; our best shot is to  aggressively promote entrepreneurship in order to bolster idea innovation&comma; productivity and job creation&period; That is how best a lot of our challenges as Africans can be solved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What is your vision for the next 5 years and where do you see yourself as an African entrepreneur&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 5 years I want to be the most authoritative&comma; most productive healthcare professional to have impacted at least 1 million Africans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What would you say is your biggest challenge as an African entrepreneur and why have you not <&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>given up&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The system is infertile and not supportive of what we have to offer&period; I believe that the general make-up of our system doesn&&num;8217&semi;t support start-ups&period; The basic rudiments such as business registration&comma; mentorship&comma; incubation&comma; skill development are not readily available&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What gets you out of bed in the morning and what keeps you up at night&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The thought that there&&num;8217&semi;s a task to start or finish&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>How did you fund your business and how difficult was it&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The start-up was ran primarily on personal funds&period; I had to run extra shifts&comma; do short-term investments with my salaries and that was how I was able to procure logistics and medical supplies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Along the way&comma; we had a few sponsorships from pharmaceutical companies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What avenues can upcoming entrepreneurs on the African continent think of with respect to  funding&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Funding<&sol;em><&sol;strong> has been the greatest challenge for most businesses&period;  I&&num;8217&semi;m not a financial expert or authority&comma; but I believe strongly that start-ups can best best support themselves through self-funding&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s easier to get external support when operations look promising and sustainability can be assured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you wish you knew before starting your first business&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I wish I knew that I didn&&num;8217&semi;t need to wait for a particular time before starting the business&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Waiting kills ideas and suppresses drive&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>In one word describe your life as an entrepreneur&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Life-changing<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What has been your greatest inspiration&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Achievements and failures&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I&&num;8217&semi;m result oriented&period; When one success is clogged&comma; it inspires me to do more&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When I fail&comma; I motivate myself with the finish line in sight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-991" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mystorymagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;IMG-20180430-WA0040-300x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"300" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;A lot of prospective change makers are waiting for a certain status&comma; capital&comma; or enablement to start a venture&period; However&comma; no time is ever the most appropriate moment to put an idea to action&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Each second spent &&num;8220&semi;preparing&&num;8221&semi; would rather be channelled into starting and learning from the mistakes&period; The time is NOW&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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