Parkers Mobile Clinic

Parkers mobile clinic seeks to solve the problem of poor accessibility to basic healthcare services among people living in remote and rural areas of Onitsha, Nigeria. Currently, approximately three-quarters of rural women lack affordable access to health facilities and medically-skilled personnel. With no health facilities, families living in remote rural communities face serious difficulty to convey their sick relatives to hospitals in the cities due to difficult terrain and lack of routine transport services.My solution is a Mobile Clinic that provides life-saving health care to people in remote areas who would otherwise have been without healthcare .If my solution is scaled globally ,it will save the lives of millions of people living in remote areas all over the world by providing healthcare services at their doorsteps. 

Parkers mobile clinic seeks to solve the problem of poor accessibility to basic healthcare services among people living in remote and rural areas of Onitsha, Nigeria. Very limited access to primary care represents the greatest healthcare needs of rural people. Currently, approximately three-quarters of people in my community (about 1 million people) lack affordable access to health facilities and medically-skilled personnel.The problem is caused by the inadequacy of health workers in the community and by the scarcity of healthcare facilities in the community. With no health facilities, families living in remote rural communities face serious difficulty to convey their sick relatives to hospitals in the cities due to difficult terrain and lack of routine transport services. As a result, hundreds of poor rural women and children in remote villages die every year because they are unable to access life-saving treatment.

My solution is a Mobile Clinic that provides life-saving health care to people of all ages in remote areas who would otherwise have been without healthcare.Before now, i have already done a survey with them to understand their healthcare needs.This solution will address their needs by providing them with healthcare services at their doorsteps. 

We operate a Mobile Clinic that provides life-saving health care to people in remote areas who would otherwise have been without healthcare in Onitsha,Nigeria. The mobile clinic team is  led by a community physician and including two nurses, a mid-wife, and two community health extension workers, uses 4-wheel-drive vehicle or motorcycles to reach families in remote rural villages to conduct synchronized primary health services including consultations, ante-natal care, dispensing medicines, HIV counseling/testing, health education and distribution of bednets and water purification tablets.Parkers mobile clinic regularly provides essential health care services to over 1000 people annually, mostly women and children. Before the inception of Parkers mobile clinic’s rural mobile clinic services, most of the remote communities had never accessed any form of modern healthcare, including being attended to by a trained health worker.

The mobile team conducts synchronized health service delivery including clinical consultations, ante-natal care,dispensing medicines, HIV counselling/testing, immunization, health education, distribution of insecticide treated nets and water purification tablets. For each village served by Parkers mobile clinic, we train at least two local people as health volunteers. Part of volunteers’ responsibilities includes training parents in their respective communities on how to recognize common illnesses in their household members. Each volunteer is given medicine boxes and trained with the skills to administer it. In this way, communities themselves take ownership of their health resulting in sustainable access to life-saving health care where they lack health professionals. For example, due to high mortality caused by malaria among children, Parkers mobile clinic adopted a radical approach that gives out oral malaria medication to vulnerable families in remote rural villages that lack any health facility, with strict instructions on when and how to use them. This enables parents to start malaria treatment immediately, even before they reach the nearest health facility.

Our solution is innovative because we provide healthcare services at the doorstep of individuals in remote areas.This is different from the routine healthcare service where people go to hospital to seek healthcare. 

Our solution uses computerized mobile clinics to deliver healthcare services to individuals in remote areas.The mobile clinic medical equipments are computerized in order to enhance effective and fast healthcare delivery.We will adopt  mapping artificial intelligence systems in order to easily locate individuals that call in for emergency healthcare services. 

I expect my solution to solve the problem because based on  the survey I conducted with people in my community, I discovered that majority of them don't like going to hospital because of difficulty with transportation ,hence the need to deliver healthcare services at their doorsteps. 

We are currently serving about 1 million people.In the next 1 and 5 years ,we intend to serve approximately 5 million and 20 million people respectively. 

In the next  1 year ,Clinical and preventive health care provided through mobile clinic will provide at least 300000 families with life-saving services on regular basis. Project will significantly improve maternal and child health and wellbeing in rural Nigeria. Providing vulnerable families with health commodities such as insecticide treated nets and water purification chemicals, will significantly reduce incidences of malaria, typhoid fever and diarrheal diseases. Thousands of children more in rural villages will be healthy and alive to celebrate their fifth birth day.

In the next 5 years ,we aim to be the largest mobile clinic network in the world. 

We face serious difficulty to convey our medical personnel, equipments and medical supplies to target populations in remote rural areas where we operate mobile clinic services. During the rainy season, it is sometimes impossible for us to reach some remote villages that depend on our life-saving health care.We also have financial challenges. 

We plan to get 4-wheel drive vehicles to navigate through the difficult terrain of getting to hard-to-reach villages.
We also face difficulties getting all the resources we require to procure medical supplies. We plan on setting up a rural social community health insurance program. Each community members will contribute $1 per month as insurance premium to be able to access health care if they fall sick. All funds are pulled together into a common sickness fund.

We have 6 full time staff

My team have the best skill set for this solution because we have a team with a combination of medical skills ,nursing skill, ICT skills , Managerial and administrative skills.I am  a qualified and well trained Medical Doctor with well over 3 years of experience working as a medical doctor and medical researcher .

I am 2 Chief Nursing officers with over 5 years experience.Other team members are accountants ,administrators and ICT professionals.

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Our customers are elderly, disabled ,chronically ill and  people living in remote areas of Onitsha, Nigeria. We generate revenue through monthly subscription pays paid by customers.

The Mobile Clinic regularly provides high quality essential health care services to over 2000 people annually, mostly women and children.

We plan on setting up a rural social community health insurance program. Each community members will contribute $1 per month as insurance premium to be able to access health care if they fall sick. All funds are pulled together into a common sickness fund.

We will also raise funds through sustained donations and grants, selling products and services and raising investment capital.

I want to apply for this program because it will give me access to funding to run my business.Through this program ,I will  join a supportive community of peers, funders, and experts to help advance my work; receive mentorship and strategic advice from Solve and MIT networks; attend Solve at MIT.

This program will give me access to mentorship, technical expertise, media and conference exposure, and business and entrepreneurship training.

Our solution is different from similar solutions because we bring healthcare services to the doorstep of our customers. 

Parkers mobile clinic will like to partner with the local governments in the region to advance community health.
We will also like to receives financial and technical support from international donors such as Global Fund for Children , USAID and American Jewish World Service all based in USA.

I want to apply for this program because it will give me access to funding to run my business.Through this program ,I will  join a supportive community of peers, funders, and experts to help advance my work. 

This program will give me access to mentorship, technical expertise, media and conference exposure, and business and entrepreneurship training.

I want to apply for this program because it will give me access to funding to run my business.Through this program ,I will  join a supportive community of peers, funders, and experts to help advance my work. 

This program will give me access to mentorship, technical expertise, media and conference exposure, and business and entrepreneurship training.