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Equitable Health Systems

GAMBANANYE / TALK TO ME APP

Team Leader
Birungi Patience
Solution Overview & Team Lead Details
Our Organization
EPHWOR(ENFORCEMENT OF PATIENTS AND HEALTH WORKERS RIGHTS)
What is the name of your solution?
GAMBANANYE / TALK TO ME APP
Provide a one-line summary of your solution.
Improving health services delivery and utilization through addressing language barrier and be able to report criminal cases to police station.
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What specific problem are you solving?

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.

What is your solution?

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.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

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.

www.ephwor.org

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

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.

https://www.exposeduganda.com/ugandan-it-experts-develop-talk-to-me-app-to-bridge-family-planning-communication-gaps-between-women-and-service-providers/

 

 

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
  • Improve confidence in, engagement with, and use of healthcare services globally.
Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Kampala, Uganda
Our solution's stage of development:
  • Pilot
How many people does your solution currently serve?
10000
Why are you applying to Solve?

 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

 

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
  • Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design, data analysis, etc.)
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
SHARON LANYERO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
More About Your Solution
Your Team
Solution Team:
Birungi Patience
Birungi Patience