GAMBANANYE / TALK TO ME APP
Accuracy of medical analysis is vital to the treatment process of patients. Many patients (1000) who come for treatment at health center do not know the English language whereas majority of medical workers can only comfortably communicate using the English language. A lot of time is spent by medical workers struggling to communicate to patients and understanding what patients are communicating to them. This in turn leads to wrong interpretation of patient’s information which they have expressed and also undermines patient’s privacy , confidentiality when the care provider has to seek the assistance of a third party/the interpreter, which compromise the treatment process if wrong medical analysis and other decision are made due to language barrier.
Millions of people have been affected due to language barrier because of misinterpretation of languages.
Improving health services delivery and utilization through addressing language barrier in Ankole region in Uganda and also ease healthcare providers and patients’ interactions with the use of a communication App called Gamba Nanye (Talk to me)APP.
Talk to Me Application, is a free offline translation app developed by EPHWOR,
It works without internet to translate voice and text speech (voice to voice, text to voice and vice versa in real time between women and service providers with a provision of English and Ankole region local language(runyankole). most women who seeks family planning solutions in ankole region are not conversant with the English language that is the official language of Uganda and practiced by most professionals.
The technology that is being done through developing a new model and giving it a thousand words using Tensa flow lite which is written in python and supported by android, in way that, it has libraries to interpret Tensa flow codes and those libraries are packaged in NDK (Native development kit), so SDK (Software Development Kit) communicates with NDK to interpret those words.
Young women and Adolescent girls , patients and health workers, parents and relatives of adolescents, security agencies, and all duty bearers.
The solution will impact the lives of young girls and women through accessing family planning services and interact with health workers as they are accessing services through using Talk to me app and be able to report cases to police station.
And also Deaf Adolescent girls and young women would access family planning services by using text to text version of the app
The solution will address their need through translating the languages and Improving their health services delivery and utilization
We engage them through downloading the APP on play store with upgrades and also launch the app to health facilities in the region
EPHWOR works closely with other agencies, authorities and civil society organizations to achieve its mission. These include; health facilities, security agencies, human rights bodies, legal services, religious leaders, policy makers; politicians at both local and national levels.
We are well positioned and right people to deliver this solution in way that we developed a new model to help us in translating the local language and we uploaded it on play store to be accessed by everyone. we also launched it on September 26th, 2020, during the commemoration of the world contraception day where EPHWOR team demonstrated the health workers, police and other stakeholders at Ruhoko HC IV in Ibanda District how it operates, such that they could become familiar with it. Talk to me App has so far been piloted on 50 users (patients and health workers) at one hospital called Ruhoko HC IV in Ibanda district in southwestern in Uganda.
- Improve confidence in, engagement with, and use of healthcare services globally.
- Pilot
We are facing the financial challenge that would help in implementation and upgrading the application and We believe solve can help us to overcome this challenge because this solution will impact the lives of young girls and women through accessing family planning services and interact with health workers as they are accessing services through using Talk to me app and be able to report cases to police station. And also Deaf Adolescent girls and young women would access family planning services by using text to text version of the app
- Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design, data analysis, etc.)