A hospital bill shouldn't stand between anyone and care.
In Nigeria, a single admission can wipe out a family's savings overnight. Menda turns that moment into a community effort. People fund verified medical bills, and every naira goes straight to the hospital treating the patient.
Run a hospital? See how Menda works for you
Folake needs kidney transplant support
Lagos
Every bill is confirmed with the treating hospital before a campaign can go live.
Funds are paid into the hospital's account, never to the patient or the family.
Donors follow the running total and see exactly what their money covers.
Most Nigerians pay for healthcare out of pocket, at the worst possible moment.
When an emergency hits, families turn to scattered WhatsApp appeals and account numbers with no way to prove the bill is real. Donors want to help but cannot tell what is genuine. Hospitals wait to be paid. Menda fixes the trust gap in the middle.
Screenshots and account numbers circulate with nothing tying them to a real patient or bill.
Cash sent to individuals can be diverted, and no one can see where it landed.
Treatment stalls while families scramble, even when the goodwill to help exists.
From bill to bedside, verified end to end
They enter their hospital and their verified bill in the Menda app. Real hospitals only, chosen from a list, never free text.
Hospital staff confirm the patient and the bill on the Menda dashboard in seconds.
The campaign goes live and donations are paid straight into the hospital's account.
The whole thing lives in your pocket
Start a campaign, give to a verified case, and follow every naira, all from the Menda app. Sign in with your phone number and you are in.
- Give in seconds
Card or bank transfer, with a receipt every single time.
- Follow the money
Watch the running total and see what each bill covers.
- Start a campaign
Patients pick their real hospital, so donors can trust it.
It runs in your browser and installs to your home screen like any other app. The App Store and Play Store versions are on the way.
On dialysis for months. A transplant is her best chance at a normal life.
Safeguards at every step
Personal and medical details are encrypted and handled under Nigeria's NDPR.
No campaign goes live until the treating hospital confirms it.
Donations are held and released to the hospital, not to individuals.
Patients and hospitals are onboarded and checked before they appear.
Everyone here has been sent a message asking for help with a hospital bill, with an account number and no way to know if any of it was real. So we built the checking in. The hospital confirms the bill before anyone can give, and the money is paid to that hospital, never to a person.
Questions, answered
Does Menda take a cut of the bill?
Menda takes 3% of what a campaign raised, once, when the money is sent to the hospital. A campaign that never pays out is charged nothing. The fee comes out of what was raised rather than being added to the bill, so a campaign that reaches its target sends the hospital 97% of it and the patient settles the last 3% with the hospital directly. Every patient is shown that figure against their own bill before they start, and it is on every campaign page as it happens.
How do I know a campaign is real?
Every campaign is confirmed with the treating hospital before it can go live, and funds are released to the hospital rather than to an individual.
Where does my donation go?
Straight into the verified hospital's account for the patient's care. You receive a receipt for every gift.
What if a campaign does not reach its target?
Whatever it raised still goes to the hospital and is credited against that patient's bill. Nothing is held back and nothing is returned because a target was missed. The rest of the bill stays what it always was, something the patient settles with the hospital directly. We can pay the hospital once a campaign reaches 40% of the bill, rather than making them wait for 100%.
Can any hospital join?
Hospitals are vetted and onboarded by our team. If you run a hospital, request a demo below and we will guide you through it.
Help your patients cover bills, at no cost to you
A simple dashboard to confirm each case, with funds disbursed straight to your accounts and a clear record of every payout.
- Verify patient bills in seconds on the web dashboard
- Funds disbursed directly into your hospital account
- A clear, tamper evident record for every campaign and payout
- Free to join, and Menda never takes a percentage of a bill
If you want to put money where the bills are
Menda is built so that giving can be checked. If your organisation wants to help people through a hospital bill and be able to show exactly where the money went, there is a way to do it here.
- Employers
Cover staff and their families through a bill, without handing anybody cash.
- Diaspora groups
Send money home against a real bill at a real hospital, and see it arrive.
- Foundations and CSR
Fund a category — maternal care, childhood cancer — and get a record of every naira.
- Churches, mosques, associations
Support your own members with the verification already done.
Tell us what you have in mind
A few lines is enough. A person reads these.
Care should never wait on a bill.
Join the people making verified medical care possible across Nigeria, one campaign at a time.