An innovative healthcare service delivery platform 

By integrating a broad service offering and a fleet of fit-for-purpose vehicles, we focus on anticipating and addressing pertinent health challenges around the globe.

Making quality healthcare globally accessible to anyone in all circumstances.

A mission that leads our way

Our main commitment is to maximize patient impact, through a holistic approach.

We build a sustainable and scalable healthcare model with decentralized infrastructure & services.

This results in countries and organizations that can benefit from our expertise in maintenance, training, quality management and supply chain.

The robust, go anywhere vehicles integrate all the necessary lab equipment and consumables.

They provide broad healthcare support across the patient journey both for routine services (including awareness/prevention campaigns, diagnostics, treatment and follow-up programs) as well as emergency preparedness and response.

Values that guide us

Trust

We strive to meet the trust of our partners and patients. Our perseverance and resourcefulness yields confidence.
Being inviting and accessible builds faith.

Care

A warm-hearted, humble human touch characterizes us the most. Seeing patients in need, is what moved us in the first place, and it will keep us moving in the future. Because patients matter. Because we genuinely care.

Passion

Passion is what drives us.  We keep pushing and innovating to reach our goals.  Call it a passionate entrepreneurial vibe, but we believe dreams will become reality.

It all started on a napkin…

Driven by field observations during the Ebola outbreak in West-Africa in 2014-2016, Dr. Rudi Pauwels identified the gaps and needs for rapid, accurate and easy to use diagnostics.

Based on his vision and a sketch on a napkin, the first BIONEAR was built. To finance the idea, the Praesens Fund, and later in 2016 the Praesens Foundation were established.

The growing demand for our go-anywhere vehicles and the need for a sustainable operational model, inspired us to create Praesens Care in 2020. We build upon the work of the Praesens Foundation and aim to make healthcare globally accessible.

Our team

Emmanuel Vidal
Chief Executive Officer
Aurélie Cappuyns
Head of Projects
Dr. Magali De Koninck
Scientific Officer
Dr. Herwig Van Marck
Chief Information Officer
Dr. Benjamin Queyriaux
Medical Advisor
Hamid Sebaly
Head of Middle East-Africa
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