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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

MEDICAL SERVICES' RESPONDERS IN TANZANIA

One-line solution summary:

Having a well interconected with 200 village chairpersons,health facilities, health propmotion officers,through mobile texts and redio

Pitch your solution.

1.Targeting more than 1.5 people in rural areas in Katavi Tanzania,there is low awareness,about diseases' out breaks,and personal preventive measures,and the impacts of stress,and depression on health of individuals,The concrete health promotions, and diseases community surveillance through uses of mobile texts and local radio stations to alert,warn,and raising the community awareness on these issues.

2.There are very good cellular net work companies in Tanzania such Hallotell,which offers text messages,up 10000 texts messages per week for 4 usd.with Radio stations you can have 30 minutes broadcasting each day by 60usd

Solutions.

-Providing mobiles phones to 150 village leaders connecting them with our community health officers,who have all data on diseases out break emergencies,from the government sources.

-Enhancing texting charges,heads of villages,and radios,to keep on educating and alerting the communities.

3.raise awareness on the impacts of disease,stress and depression impacts,and that personal prevention is better than cure.

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What specific problem are you solving?

1.There is a low understanding of diseases spreading methods,in most cases catalyzed by bad taboos,such as believing diseases are witch oriented.In countries with low income.

2.There is very poor out reach programs to educate people on diseases,out breaks,and the impact of stress and depression on individuals,such as developing diabetic type 2.

3.There are no sustainable mechanisms on health promotions and community surveillance,and data collection,and uses,analysis of data,and proposing proper interventions by using the collected data.

4.There are no enough funds to put the system on place with a wide coverage,to the remote villages.

5.Upon detecting the out break,there are no proper ways on linkage with health cares provider.

6.There are normally no or very low health education given to the community about diseases, and measures to be taken for preventive purposes at individual level.Much emphasis has been kept on HIV/AIDS.

The the burden of life threatening health conditions such diabetic,autoimmune diseases,mental dis orders, in which stresses,and depressions are active contributing factors are neglected.

Uses,of text messages,local radios,with creating a coordinated system on place,that involves, linkages,public health officer,IT person,communities,Government health system data sources,community health workers,heads,of health facilities,could be a proper solution.It can cover up to 30 mill people.In developing countries in Africa up 80% of people live in rural.

What is your solution?

1.Procuring mobile phones to the villages chairmen,wards leaders,head of institutes,such as primary and secondary schools,colleges, and religious and local communities leaders.Incapacitating text messages at least 4000 text messages per week per each leader.

2.Having a public health Thro officer,who works closely with IT manager ,on sending text messages to the villages,and community heads,and these leaders send text messages to their people,and encourages a third part messages distribution upon reaching to the villages.

Public health officer works closely with Regional,medical doctors,Districts medical officers,Regional data manager,data managers of health facilities.He will be responsible also to create short text messages for health promotion topics,warning,and alerting about diseases out break.

He shares these in formations to the IT manager who in turn send to the target peoples in massive,can send up to 10000 text messages in 2 hours.

3.Working with local radio stations by paying annual fees,and uses the radio sessions effectively in

-Warning and alerting people about diseases out break,and general preventives measures at personal level

-Provides education on the impacts of stress,depression,and how to protect themselves.

4.Performing supportive supervisions,and mentor ship to the community leaders.Government community health workers.

5.Creating a web site,and encourages,health workers,community health workers,to review updates,on diseases out breaks and other topics.

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

Targeting 1.5 million people,villages in the two region of Katavi and Kigoma,peasants,small business people,students pupils.

There are no enough and impactful initiatives at pace to reach these people through health promotions and community surveillance.It is a big country with more than 80% people living in villages,and some places no roads,the villages are scattered and with limit access to basic services.

Uses of mobile phones,Local ways in well programmed manner could be the only solution to archive the goals.Through direct visitation,discussions,questioners,observations,Calling villages chairpersons,and reviewing studies carried in some villages.Community engagement and provisions of feedback.

-Reaching them in a manner of health promotion and surveillance at lowest coast,non physical approaching.

-Having a well define program on which short,and well understood text messages,with relevant topics are sent in wide coverage

-Weekly radio session on discussion regarding the best topics,in well elaborated manner,for warning ,alerting,educating on preventive measures at personal level,in covid 19,impacts,of stresses,depressions,lioness,and how to avoid and handle these conditions in finding the ways out.

The radio,covers all the target population.

-Sharing the well translated the community surveillance data,and educate on how to be at safe side with the pandemic and other health problems.

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

Strengthen disease surveillance, early warning predictive systems, and other data systems to detect, slow, or halt future disease outbreaks.

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

-all problems in this given populations are due to,no or little out reach program in health promotions and community diseases ,Taboos,ignorance,villages scattered,poor infrastructures upon reaching, ignorance,low income.

-The best technology to reach the population is via mobiles,phones,radio,through health education,warning and alert about the pandemic.The best thing the country has very good cellular net work coverage at very low costs.

Hiring Radio stations session,could= 60Usd per hour

Buying mobile phones 30 usd per unit

Dealing with data manger in local health facilities,and incapacitating them with communications allowances.Having a competent IT manger who can send massive text messages, as per need.

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

Kigoma, Tanzania

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.

Our organization has taken much initiatives, on this areas for needy assessment.We have varieties of concepts on how we can impose proper interventions in relation to the addressed problems.

The idea we want to implement is new, very useful and we are sure it will make us reach our target indicators.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Country Director