Hospi Mobile Services

Elevate is a big opportunity for our work to be brought to the lamplight. I am applying for The Elevate Prize in other to get mentorship and support that will help scale our work to the next level and help us build a sustainable social venture. Our work requires a significant investment in technology which has been very costly for our organisation so far. Our work on the ground has been able to reach over 300,000 people in 6 regions of Cameroons 10 regions. We believe that this impact could be amplified using our mobile application called Hospi Mobile Cohort.

We have been able to do a lot of work in the field but we need mentorship and financial support in order to cover the cost of building a more sustainable tech platform.

If I am selected winner, the price will enable our organisation to build and improve our software which is used by community health workers. It will also help us build a bigger and better team by providing the tools and training required to equip each community health worker with what they need in order to provide better care to people in the community.

I am a medical doctor, passionate about leveraging technology and the growing workforce in Africa to improve access to primary healthcare in communities.

In my first few months of professional work as a medic, I was overwhelmed with the load of work that I had in a busy hospital and realised that a lot could be done in the community to reduce the number of hospital visits. Despite the huge gap in community health needs, only about 50% of healthcare graduates get full-time employment in their early years of work so

I decided to build a mobile application to bring healthcare workers who will go into communities and render service and get paid for their services they render. From a small team of 3 community workers in one town, we grew to over 120 health workers in 6 regions. Our community health experts use a mobile application to document their interventions in the community and track patients who are in remote areas in other to provide personalised care.

My goal is to connect people in rural communities to doctors in the cities and use the local health workers to provide quality services.

Over 350 million people are living with hypertension and over 25 million people living with HIV in Africa. About 25% of people with these chronic diseases require continuous follow up in communities.

In Cameroon, over 7 million people live with at least 1 of these chronic diseases. There are many international and national agencies working to meet the needs of these people but the hospital care provided does not meet the need available.

Our organisation Hospi Mobile Services trains community health workers and uses them to scale up different projects. There is a need to implement community services not sufficiently trained community health workers to render services in the community. So we gathered young unemployed health workers nationwide and train them to render expert services in the community. We are the link between the patient in the community and the hospitals. Using what we call the handshake technique, we screen people in communities and link them up to hospitals for further care while we also support those who do not need to the hospital.

Our volunteers use software to collect data in the community and communicate with doctors in hospitals in order to provide care in the community 

We are the first national group of young community health workers who are always ready to help scale any project to national level. We designed a mobile application where each community health workers can use to document their interventions and communicate with a doctor and health facility. This application eliminates the traditional paper-based system which is used by the few governments trained community health workers.

People in rural communities have better access to health services through our community health workers system. Health workers are now using our network to search for jobs. Projects that would have been done in one region only are now being done at the national level thanks to our organisation and its network of workers. 

• We are creating jobs and improving the health of people with chronic diseases. We are also helping people in remote areas to communicate with doctors through their community workers.
• Thanks to our work we have screened over 30,000 people for Hypertension and over 300,000 people for HIV and other diseases
• We will like to develop our mobile phone application so that it reduces the amount of paperwork involved in reporting.  We will like to train more community workers and develop a mobile application that will facilitate the execution and reporting of all community health activities.