MOCHCare

In Ghana, there are 50.1% women population according to the 2021 population and housing census conducted , majority which are pregnant women don't get proper maternal and postnatal data keeping as a result of constant shortage of the maternal and child health record booklet in Ghana.

Some mothers misplace or mishandle the booklet that make data tracing very uneasy. Large number of pregnant women and mothers forget their appointment dates and as a result, children and pregnant women miss immunizations and sometimes this lead to maternal mortality and enfant death. Furthermore, Doctors and Midwives go through long lists of patients to identify defaulters and writing end of month reports is also a difficulty to the Care Giver.

Data manipulations and stigmatization is also on the rise in the Ghanaian health facilities. 

If the above is well taking care of,  data of Pregnant women and children under 5years will be adequately protected  and maternal mortality will be eradicated and lesser periods will be spent at the health facility. 

MOCHCare help Doctors, collect data of pregnant women and children under 5years and store them digitally with the Data collection tool we have built (Desktop Version). An offline/online usage of the application which can be used in both urban and rural areas of Ghana. Data collation for easy report writing ad also, our SMS/Voice call alert are set to notify patients of appointments dates. MOCHCare is a Four component product.

1. Data collection tool thus the desktop version is used to collect data of all pregnant women and children under 5years. This comes with the on/offline usage and the SMS/Voice call alert features with friendly user interface for easy navigations. 

2. MOCHCare cloud dashboard collates data for reports.

3. Education and networking is provided on the website/Community Marketplace. Mothers learn from experts by accessing a wide range of Health Professionals, buy from accredited vendors online and also sell/find job vacancies for early mothers and pregnant women which they work from home. 

4. Our mobile app helps the mother to track their health information .

We provide training for Doctors and Mothers on how the application is beneficial to the health system and before onboarding them. 

Ghanaian languages are used in educating mothers as well as in our SMS/Voice communications

How are we changing the world? With MOCHCare, we're the technology in the data collection and storage of all pregnant women and children under 5years, by providing a safer data collection and storage tool for all.

On our vision, we want to make sure all data of all pregnant women and children from all background and culture of Ghana is protected through technology.

MOCHCare is set to work directly and meaningfully impact lives of 50.1% women populations here in Ghana. These number of women comprise pregnant women, lactating mothers, young women and children under 5years.

These people are under served such that, there are improper way of collecting and storing their previous and current vital health histories and on countless times, I have witnessed Health care givers scold pregnant women for mishandling or misplacing their maternal and child health record booklet.

Papers and cardboards are used instead of the original booklet, these materials are not durable hence get destroyed easily. 

Parts of Ghana easily get flooded mostly every year and these make some health facilities loose the booklets through flood by that loosing maternal data. Health care givers miss track of health information and sometimes leading to maternal mortality.

MOCHCare solution will bridge all the effects the above is causing by keeping patient data in one place for both present and future references. 

MOCHCare's team lead, for the past years, have been a community volunteer, working closely with Midwives, pregnant women and children under 5years, making sure every pregnant woman gets the needed care and all children attend the Child Welfare Clinic, duly immunized and well taking care of medically.

As a team, we do join Midwives in educating mothers on general maternal and postnatal health.

Since our piloting phase, MOCHCare is actively serving One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Pregnant women and Five Health Facilities. These health facilities are in the rural parts of the Eastern part of Ghana who get underserved in terms of getting enough booklet from the Ministry of Health.

Joining Solve, MOCHCare will be able to be a part of peer networks and organizations who are doing same work to exchange learnings, advice and support. The Global Network of Solve will also help us to learn from and meet with potential partners across the world.

Networks and  exposure by Solve will help us expand across Africa. More so, resourcing requirements that will be provided by Solve MOCHCare to meet our scaling goals, connections from Solve will help ensure access to a bigger technical, financial and strategic resources. 

Some key barriers to our solution;

1. Government Bureaucracy, going through all the bureaucracy as a startup is difficult.

2. Product development, funds to hire the best Software engineers to build MOCHCare is also a barrier to us.

Our solution is tech based and tech-driven to Health facilities, pregnant women, children and all women which provides data security.

Our community market place gives all women from all race to interact, get educated, buy and sell quality but affordable products.

Notifications are sent to mothers in their preferred local languages making it easy to alert them of their appointments dates.

Our Cloud dashboard easily collate data for reports where Doctors see progress they make while attending to their clients through the Data collection tool. The mobile app assist the mother to track her vital data and ask questions where necessary.

Our 5 year vision is to onboard Four Hundred and Fifty Health facilities and get 50,000 mothers and children onboard through the MOCHCare community marketplace, mobile app and the data collection tool.

 We plan to do this by;

1. Partnering with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, National Commission for Civic Education, Birth and Death Registry, National Health Insurance Scheme and also International Bodies who are focused on Mother and Child Care.

2. Onboarding as many women on the Community marketplace as possible from all 16 regions of Ghana.

3. Working actively on our channels to reach our users especially the word of mouth.

By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births Indicator by the is what MOCHCare is working towards by reducing death associated with data loss and inability to attend antenatal and postnatal accurately.

Every pregnant women will have a safer data protection and any defaulter is followed up for accurate medical attention.

Talking about the need of MOCHCare to Health care givers/Health Authorities started with no marketing budget for the past 2years and so, we had 0 budget for customer acquisition. 

We intend to charge when a health facility is onboarded, SMS/Voice alerts are sent to mothers, and also market place commissions. We believe that this can grow significantly in the next 3years through sales of our software, commissions and SMS marketing.