Health

Irish diagnostics firm ChektAhora leads cervical cancer campaign

Company has raised €1m of a planned funding round as it expects to hit profitability within the next few months

Blaine Doyle, co-founder and CEO of ChektAhora

ChektAhora, an Irish diagnostics firm focused on Latin America, has raised €1 million from backers. The news comes as its chief executive Blaine Doyle revealed the company has vaccinated over 50,000 women against cervical cancer in Mexico city as part of a major health promotion campaign.

Co-founded in Dublin by Doyle, ChektAhora operates primarily in Mexico but has in recent years been expanding across Latin America. The company is run as an online medical laboratory, ...