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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

i-Responder

One-line solution summary:

iResponders equips local health workers in Lagos with the iresponders tool for unreported cases of disease outbreaks.

Pitch your solution.

One of the biggest problems we have with data sometimes is the capacity to collect quality data . Recently there is some underlying unreported account of over 95% cases of non-communicable diseases in some informal settlement across the 3rd mainland bridge of mainland, Lagos.

What specific problem are you solving?

i-Responder Mobile Application
The i-responder mobile application is a fast and efficient mobile technology that will enable local health workers to collect required epidemiological data in the case of an outbreak which most time is either underreported or not reported at all.

An inefficient digital solution that allows community health workers to easily record outbreaks data and send it to local health authorities involved.

Lack of coordination and synergy among community health workers towards outbreak emergency response.

Knowledge gap among these health workers on how data usage and collection on health areas.

The goal of this mobile app is to develop a data collection reliable mobile application that will help local workers report cases of an epidemic swiftly to the local or disease control agencies while gathering evidence data to prove the existence of that data provided to health authorities involved.

What is your solution?

The mobile app has the following features and functionalities

E-learning Data collection platform that provides community health workers with simple and short training on data usage and collection.
Record cases as they begin to turn out in number.
Digital data transfer
Report a case to health authorities and request for immediate intervention.
Access to toll-free call on emergency outbreak issues.

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

Our target population will cover

Direct beneficiaries- Health workers eg, nurses, doctors,

Indirect benficiaries- Local communities dwellers

In cases of an outbreak/pandemic most of these communities dwellers due to been under represented suffer negligence thereby leaving them out of preventive and solution measures just set asides for the

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Equip last-mile primary healthcare providers with the necessary tools and knowledge to detect disease outbreaks quickly and respond to them effectively.

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.

This tool aligns with the challenge requirments to using technology

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Lagos, Nigeria

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

Currently, we have a mobile technology that will enable a First Responder to receive an alert/notification of an emergency and immediately; he/she will initiate a lifesaving treatment prior to the arrival of a professional emergency responder although based on current cases of meningitis reported from a rural slum here in Lagos.

We believe the early report of these emerging cases can limit the adverse negative effect of potential outbreaks.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Paschal Achunine-Executive Director