A healthcare company that started with patients.
Our story
Every line began with someone asking
Sihhat Global opened in Istanbul in early 2021 with one service: helping patients from abroad find the right Turkish hospital, at a fair price, with someone who speaks their language waiting at the airport. In the first nine months 200+ enquiries arrived from 30+ countries.
Then the hospitals those patients came from began to ask for supplies. We started sourcing in Türkiye and shipping out — consumables and equipment to hospitals in East and West Africa, cleanroom garments to vaccine and pharmaceutical plants in North Africa and the Levant, skincare to a retailer in the Gulf.
Customers asked for supplements, so we founded online health stores and learned, order by order, what sells across the Gulf, the Middle East and Africa and what it costs to deliver it. Manufacturers asked for markets, so we took on distribution and registration. Investors and companies asked for judgement, so the founder's deal, tender and regulatory experience became an advisory practice. Clinics asked about AI, so we began assessing it for them.
Six disciplines, one habit: we add a service when a customer needs it and we can do it properly.
What this means for you
- One team for the whole journey: no hand-offs between an agent, a forwarder and a consultant
- Answers in your language, with prices and dates in writing
- Advice tested on our own shipments, stores and registrations first
- A supplier established in Türkiye and the United Kingdom
Founder
Ahmed Elerian, Founder
Ahmed is a pharmacist by training (BSc Pharmacy, Mansoura University) with an MSc in International Relations from Istanbul Aydın University. His career has moved through every function a healthcare business depends on.
Production. Six years in pharmaceutical manufacturing at Sigma Pharmaceutical Industries and its sister plant: beta-lactam and cephalosporin lines, sterile and non-sterile, batch records and release with health-ministry inspectors, audit preparation, and teams of 30+ operators. Six Sigma Black Belt; GMP, documentation and production-hygiene certified. For you, this means manufacturing and quality advice from someone who has run the line — and supplier audits for supplements and cosmetics that look past the certificate on the wall.
Marketing and business development. International marketing for a specialist hospital in Istanbul, then head of international marketing for Liv Hospital Group with responsibility for MENA business development — patient channels, agents and institutional relationships across the region.
Operations. Founded Sihhat Global in 2021 and has run its patient operations, exports and online stores since.
Building companies. Has established healthcare businesses from scratch in the Gulf and managed their successful acquisition by investors.
Investment and finance. Senior business-development work for a Gulf healthcare investment group: acquisitions and due diligence, joint ventures with international operators, government tenders, product registration, supplier agreements, supply-chain finance and financial modelling.
Languages: Arabic, Turkish, English.
Mission
To make Türkiye's hospitals, factories and health technology work for patients, providers and investors across the Middle East and Africa.
Vision
To be the first call for anyone crossing between Türkiye, MENA and Africa in healthcare — because we have made the crossing ourselves, in every direction.
Values
Do it first. We offer what we have already done.
Say the number. Price, timeline, risk. If we do not know, we say so and find out.
Regulator before launch. Registration and compliance come first, so your product is not stopped at the border.
Small promises, kept. A written scope, a date, a handover.
Care travels. We began with patients far from home. Every shipment, product and report still ends with one.
Where we are
Istanbul, Türkiye — head office
United Kingdom — Sihhat Global Ltd
Serving the Gulf, the Levant, North, East and West Africa.