Nurse In Hand

1. Problem

The sudden COVID19 lock-down of cities, abruptly separated families most who fall under our focus groups. There was and has been anxiety on daily management of the unknown.

2. Solution

"DAKTARI", has a two-way radio communication capability, a digital wearable solution gives peace of mind for the wearer and the family, enabling critical communication with our control room for emergency response or home-care visits. 

Also created jobs for a healthcare value chain support for our focus groups: Riders for deliveries; Riders to ferry home-care support teams for general cleaning and Community Health Workers to attend to medical issues; call center teams trained to give psychosocial care and response to our direct and indirect clients.

3. Global Scale

Psychosocial workers offer 24/7 online Support, Care and Response reduce mental trauma, stress and anxiety during current COVID19 times. creating jobs, support weak and over-stretched health systems backed by home-based care. 

COVID19 has led to unfortunate lay-offs of employees and businesses have closed down. Massive skilled workforce is locked up in homes.

On the flip-side, those who have Aged Parents, Pregnant spouses or family members requiring managed care have been worried with restricted movements.

Mental health issues have spiked requiring urgent 24/7 online psychosocial support to deal with trauma, anxiety and stress as a result of the lock-down outcomes. 

Nurse In Hand is observing all the laid down guidance and protection as per the COVID19 Protocols.

Nurse In Hand is aligning with the new paradigm shift of emerging job opportunities that is currently creating demand for digital solutions and platforms to address systemic challenges to strengthen health and social systems across the world.

Nurse In Hand has created a wearable solution that eases two-way communication between our clients and our Teams, and appropriate response is given, either online, call or visit: 

1. On-boarding healthcare workers of all cadres to offer home-based care and  home support visits.

2. Home cleaners to our clients.

3. Riders to offer delivery of goods and transport.

4. Technology skilled youths / teams for back up support

5. Already trained call-center trained youths for logistics

6. Psychosocial Counselors to offer 24/7 support. 

Nurse In Hand is targeting the massive skilled Youth and health-workers in the population starting Kenya, Africa and Globally since COVID19 pandemic has created the need to augment the overstretched health and social systems.

1. Not all health-workers are engaged in the hospitals. So we have health-workers who can contribute in preventive, promotive and management of the community with proper support...PPEs, medical supplies as the need demands.

2. Home Cleaners, keep our Senior Citizens and other client's homes clean during this pandemic times.

3. Riders majority are the youth and young family bread earners. In some cases the motorbikes are on loan and any income would help continue feeding families and service loans.

4. Technology skilled Youth and Teams were managing their lives till COVID19 hit us and they had to go home.

5. Call-Centers were thriving and many Youths and Teams had been trained. This is a huge resource seated at home.

6. Counselors are continuously being trained in psychosocial support. This is an emerging skill set, which is very critical.   

The alert / health Wearable is a Frontier Technology with the transformative potential to deliver healthcare in developing countries, such as Kenya and Africa. These alert/health wearables technologies, have the potential to bridge gaps in health systems and enhance health outcomes.

Our niche is integrating these frontier technologies in reaching the undeserved rural communities in Africa, connecting the unconnected to technology to serve the vulnerable populations.  

We integrate our Smart Mobile Apps, the alert wearables (IOTs), availing to our rural communities peace of mind; to make a smart infrastructure that is supported by our control center. We also utilize aspects of Blockchain technology to help make data and patient/client records more secure, private and transparent. This enables traceability and authentication of our service, medical records and any pharmaceutical products prescribed well captured for future reference and for continuous auditing of our systems.  

http://www.sograce.cn/ 

SOGRACE LIMITED is one of the many companies that market Smart Wearables such as GPS Smart Bracelets / Watches and Elderly SOS GPS Watch amongst others. 

Google Smart watches are the hype, so we are just connecting the unconnected with life-saving IOTs.

COVID19 Pandemic is calling for our communities to find the "New Normal" going forward. Of key concern is the new normal for our families, loved ones and our communities. In Africa, communities interaction and integration are the fabric of our resilience. When that is tested, then we have to adopt and adapt new norms.

Nurse In Hand is connecting the unconnected rural communities and making a reality of frontier technologies like the SOS wearables and Smart Apps downloadable in Smartphones. In Kenya, we have a Smartphone reach of about 80%. Assumption of every 5th person has a Smartphone and at the community level this person can send alerts on behalf of others.

Our new normal, living with COVID19, is to embrace technology to engage with our loved ones in the rural areas, caregivers taking care of families. Remote monitoring, SOS GPS wearables; all closely monitored at our control center and other site centers, which will offer Telemedicine consultations and access to health information, regardless of insurance coverage.

Nurse In Hand is ensuring that transitioning to "living with COVID19", families have peace of mind, new skills and jobs frontiers are created and digital solutions offer digital health systems strengthening.

We have been piloting the Elderly SOS GPS wearable, with my elderly Mother (in the Video), who is 260 Kilometres from Nairobi City, where we have the Control Center. We have had so far 100 Pregnant mothers living 200 kilometres in peri-urban area using our Smart App for health information and prenatal clinic alerts.

In the next one year, COVID19 has increased awareness on the need for digital solutions, and expect, to increase by over 5000 the use of our IOTs to our rural, peri-urban and urban communities. Adapting from our Nigeria Partners (Mobi Health), the Telemedicine platform that is doing very well.

In five years, we expect to have vibrant Telemedicine centers in East Africa and the use of remote monitoring, SOS GPS wearables to be the norm, serving about 100,000 clients.

Nurse In Hand and Nurse In Hand Emergency Response Teams are firm believers in the power of collaborations and partnerships. We do not reinvent the wheel as there are very good systems and products in the market. The African market is now so ready to adopt and adapt.

My training in Health Systems gives me an edge in understanding the gaps, the needs and the solutions. We are well entrenched in the Government systems which gives us the undue advantage of the goodwill to implement solutions where the Government has not covered, forming a platform of Public-Private Partnerships on reaching the under-served communities and connecting the frontier technologies. 

Funding is key for: 

1. Training staff and support teams

2. Salaries and Wages

3. Purchasing the SOS GPS Wearables and integrating to our systems

4. Telemedicine Hardware

5. Medical Supplies

1. Training Staff and support teams

-Identify those who have different skills and support them to be Trainer of Trainers and Trainees.

2. Salaries and Wages

-Our Clients and their families would pay to be on-boarded to our service and this would make the bulk of our payments.

3. Purchasing the SOS GPS Wearables and integrating to our systems

-Each client and family that on-boards for this covers the cost.

4. Telemedicine Hardware

- We would directly fundraise to buy and also explore revenue share to pay off over time. 

5. Medical supplies

- Pursue credit arrangements where possible as the clients would eventually pay.

Nurse In Hand Emergency Response is a road accident First Responder service in Kenya. The Smart Mobile Apps, the Control center Platform and the Smart Infrastructure back Doctors on the highways, who respond on emergency motorcycles with Trauma Bags to road accidents in Kenya. 

Nurse In Hand Emergency Response is the umbrella organization. Others are:

1.Nurse In Hand: A rural communities services provider and engagement platform. 

2. Healthcare Entrepreneurs: On-boarding healthcare workers, training and welfare.

3. Road Emergency Doctors: Sources and manages the medical supplies

3. Lend-A-Roof for solar energy to power our centers off-grid and embrace green technologies. 

Our collaborations and partnerships have helped us manage most of direct human resource costs.

4 Full time staff

6 Part-time/ Advisors

Others are employed by our collaborators and partners.

1. Lucy Njuguna, CEO and a Health Systems Manager. I bring the understanding of the WHO standards and recommendations, identify the gaps in our health systems and the opportunities for support from our Government. Passionate on Technology integration to support our health systems.

2. Dr. Yarsin Khamas, COO. Understand the clinical standards, IT integration in our internal Apps, Platforms and IOTs.

3. Advisors (Kenyans) serve in the UK health space; Offer skills training on best practices to adapt to our service.

We as locals understand where and what the problems are and know what ad how the solutions should be. That gives us the edge to understand our communities and our cultures.

4. TechnoBrain Group is one of the renowned IT solutions company, working with us closely for the last 3 year to develop our it solutions.

5. Opticom, a Kenyan company, remote monitoring services abroad on GIS Platform, partnering on the control center services.

6. Kenya Vision2030 Delivery Secretariat 

We have different partners and collaborators supporting and engaging in the value chain.

1. TechnoBrain Group is one of the renowned IT solutions company, working with us closely for the last 3 year to develop our it solutions.

2. Opticom, a Kenyan company, remote monitoring services abroad on GIS Platform, partnering on the control center services.

3. Kenya Vision2030 Delivery Secretariat, a Government Agency awarded us a recognition of being a "potential flagship project in Kenya", giving us an identity in 2018.

4.National Transport & Safety Authority (NTSA), in March 2020, gave us a recognition as the 3rd "emergency response provider" in Kenya.

5. Kenya Highways Authority (KeNHA) has partnered with us to set up emergency highways centers, as holding centers for Highway Doctors and medical supplies.

6. Delamere Estates, a private company has donated land to build the first center in partnership.

7. ISUZU East Africa, one of the big motor vehicle manufacturers in East Africa, has built our first center that was to be launched end of March 2020.

8. Signed an MOU with Nakuru County Government, which is the County with the highest road fatalities in Kenya for implementing our services. In Kenya, health is devolved to the Counties.