Oras Medical was shaped by both professional experience and personal reality.

After beginning a career in healthcare at 23, working with doctors in private hospitals, it became clear how clinical decisions are made - and where gaps exist.

But the turning point came from something much closer to home.

When my mum was in care, she was transferred to hospital multiple times each month. Each transfer was distressing - for her, for our family, and for the care team supporting her.

What made it harder was that many of those transfers were not ultimately necessary.

They were precautionary decisions - made because there was no access to immediate diagnostic tools at the bedside.

In the absence of certainty, the system defaults to escalation.

Often, that meant catheterisation. In her case, this was not always needed - and on several occasions, it led to infections such as UTIs, creating further complications and discomfort.

What became clear was this:

• The issue wasn’t a lack of care.
• It wasn’t a lack of effort.

It was a lack of access - and a lack of adoption.

• Access to simple diagnostic tools.
• Access to the training needed to use them confidently.

I firmly believe that if those capabilities had been available, many of those hospital transfers - and the complications that followed -could have been avoided.

That experience became the foundation of Oras Medical.

Not as a device company - but as a solution to a much larger problem.

Jeffrey Oravbiere
Founder & Managing Director

Oras Medical