Health Centers

Our problem is challenging to define and recognize. We spend months to know what the problem is and find out all related issues and other issues which can be linked to this problem. We send some of our members to do a survey and see what is the capacity and measure of the problem exactly. And all those surveys and looking became very useful and fundamental sources of our solution. This problem is there are no related health care centers in the remote areas in Somalia. The population is enormous, around 270,000 people, and health issues are one of the massive challenges globally. That is why we have big NGOs like WHO. Many stories had happened because of the lack of health services, especially when mothers wanted to give birth to their baby kids and it takes so long to get to the rarest cities. The other main linked problems or contributed problems with this are lack of ambulances and very rough roads which are difficult to travel on them. Imagining in this modern century that many people are suffering to get these services is something that we can solve quickly by building health paces and bringing good and experienced doctors and nurses. Mainly those remote areas are rural, small villages, and farms. Most country resources come from those places, such as livestock, fruits and vegetables, and charcoal. 

My solution is to open health centers in the villages in those remote areas and provide mobile health services. My solution is solving the fundamental needs of those communities living in remote areas and giving them access to enough health services and medications that all those different government authorities have not provided yet. We will bring doctors and nurses with their complete equipment. Those communities will scale our solution once in three months, like giving them surveys about our work. We will respect their feedback to recorrect what we have not yet done perfectly, and also, we will see their appreciation. Our data storing and analyzing would be our technical processes. We will put in every stored data how many people served, not served, which places need more medications, which sickness is coming commonly, causes of that sickness, and who are the weak people like children and adults. We will ask help from the government to fix the familiar roads because we are doing mobile services.

My solution serves remote people, especially rural farmers and villagers, and their number is very high, around 270,000 people. I have opened one center in one village because of the limited funding, and others come to that village, but it is tough to reach out because of the lack of ambulances and rough roads. I am pleased that some of them use that clinic and others come to that village from far distances, where they don't have other basic life terms like education and clean water. These remote areas don't get access to government development projects, but those candidates make many promises during elections and campaigns but don't do any actions and implementations. This solution is well addressed to the community's needs to provide services and medication at a very affordable price with those communities. 

These remote areas are very far from other big cities, and we are initially from that region, but we studied in different regions. So, we are educators and role models of that region. We have some leaders in the government, but they don't do any actions, but there are some promises. Since we are the ones who know how to implement some development communities, we decided to start to open this clinic, and we succeeded in it. We are applying for funding to open other clinics. Then we want to expand and open more clinics. After that, we will start additional essential development like education and water. The community welcomed what we have done already, and they are expecting to do more from us. 

Already, I mentioned that we did surveys before we implemented the first clinic and after we understood the environment, target customers, Sustainability of the business, and so on. We got some help from the local government, and they gave us equipment tools and got a registration license. The most important thing for the community was spreading the words as communication. Local representatives were helping us with which items the community and livestock needed as medications and health services.

We have several barriers like technically, we don't have cars or ambulances, good buildings, and financial challenges to expand. It is the first year of universally, and we are struggling more with marketing, limited funding, getting partners, and more connections globally. I am sure that we can find out those specific issues in Solver when getting partners and enough funding. 

All my other educator fellow friends always suggest, but they don't start evaluating and then the action. But my team and I analyzed the situation problem and made a breakdown solution that applied some funding opportunities after discovering the problem's solution. We expected it would work perfectly because our research, reports, and found data analyzed worked well. Of course, our solution improved the lives of those remote people. Other innovative areas linked to this solution are job creation, role models, and showing those silent people who have strong abilities based on their educational background. 

Since healthy caring is fundamental, and it is something that the community needs every moment. This environment has had feeble health issues ideologically since the last military Somali government or the Somali Republic failed. I would communicate with all educated people and politicians from this region to contribute financially, speak for this voiceless community, and visit the villages and cities to see and feel the situation in this region that is not good. I would create investment fund accounts that people could put in their contributions funds. Even local communities have livestock and farms to contribute some of their livestock if they could. This project also gives teaching opportunities for the community, like how they can make self-sufficiency and use their resources properly. For example, if every nomadic family contributes one goat or sheep, they can progress in their lives. Then, it will come a time when they don't need outside hand investment funds. Then this community would be a role model for many other regions in the country because this area can't be the only region that needs all these fundamental developments. Next year, it has to solve all health needs in this village and the rural areas because all communities around this village have heard and know all services that this clinic and pharmacy offer. The population number in this village and areas around it is approximately ten thousand(10,000). So, around ten thousand people get good health services in their place in a year, which is a significant improvement. In the next five years, I plan to create five clinics and pharmacies in five different villages, and I estimate that around ten thousand people live in each town and its surrounding grassland areas. I hope it would be straightforward because in those years already, the community understood collaborativeness and working together. Even diaspora, educated people, politicians, and whoever from this region would hopefully save those who live in a mountainous area. I think it is enough for five years to learn that collaborativeness and great accomplishment come up after a lot of effort. 

We sold many medications and provided many health services, and our trend line and value capture are going up constantly. Sure our sales, cost of good soles, gross profit, and net profit are going in the right direction. The best thing is our three staffs get their salary payment from the profit of this first clinic including rents, electricity and other expenses. Since this clinic is new in the market, I am delighted it is affording to cover its expenses and purchase medications. That was our most worrying, but I am happy about that. 

My solution has a clear impact on the problem, linear solution because we identified the problem first after researching the health care of those remote areas. Then our solution is to provide health services in those areas by opening clinics in small villages. Then, the outcome is getting medications in those areas, struggles of the far traveling cities stopped. 

A few technologies can form, but they are limited because of the environment and geography. They are google Maps, Google Sheets, and the internet too. Google map, we use to know where our most costumers are coming from when they contact through phones by calling. Then we analyze how far that customer is and how many they are. Then some services, we offer discounts for them because they traveled more distance even though we are now willing from Solver to get enough funds to open more clinics and cover the needs for this current clinic. Google sheet, we used to store data for financially, types of equipment, purchasing inventories, accounting payables, receivables and then analyze that after a month for the financial statement position. 

I have a team for three people and myself. So, one of them and I are male while other two members are female. Our mission is to create jobs with diverse and equality in our environment. Our ruling space is where everyone can work, live and welcome to introduce his and her opinions and no pressure for that. 

I provide value to the population because we serve them to bring medications and health services. After all, there are no health centers and pharmacies. Then they buy them from us, and we use that money to give these three employees salaries, rent the store and make purchases for the store. We don't use too many social media and platforms because our target customers always don't use social media since they live in remote areas. Our segment targets are children, mothers, and medical for livestock. We don't earn much money as profit, but all of our income is gross profit before subtracting expenses, even though the local government volunteered for the tax for six months. 

I have a couple of options to seek funding for my projects, like creating fundraising accounts, making campaigns to contribute, and then asking the health ministry to help build the first clinic center and pharmacy. If all populations understand the importance of health, they could build many clinics and even make other developments. The other significant method is to compare all countries' regions, how they had gotten the developments and what caused those differentiations. We will push the government and NGOs to contribute some funding and to decrease expenses. We will ask doctors and nurses to volunteer if we meet financial crises. 

My capital investment was very limited $8,000 and I did not get completely because it has three faces but it is not. It could not apply to build pace, put enough medications, equipment tools, qualified doctors and vehicles.