After five years of relentless effort, David, Mike, Lawrence had transformed the landscape of clinic software adoption. BandaGo software had become the gold standard for over 100 frontline medical clinic operations situated in slums and remote rural locations.
Amid the chaos of slum life, a magical moment can occur. When a patient sees her unborn child moving on a tiny tablet screen and hears its heartbeat, she gasps in disbelief and joy.
Small low-resource medical clinics that use our technology can afford to treat people like the man who lives in a toilet and remain open and self-sustainable.
When 3 of his fellow criminals were caught and one of them shot to death, Fidel was thankful to be alive and made a deal with the black belt nurse to return to school and quit the cocaine slum cocktail.
Proving technology can mitigate the impact of absent medics and ensure uninterrupted healthcare services in small medical clinics.
What term befits an individual compelled to conduct a test for a highly contagious ailment without the proper equipment due to lack of alternatives? Committed to risking their life to ensure the provision of medical care to those grappling with affliction amid dire circumstances.
Kenya has a total of 189,932 health workers for its 55 million people. 25,000 of these are clinical officers and their clinics are a lifeline to 16.1% of some of the poorest people in the world.
All this sharing of the most basic things seems to indicate that patience is a critical survival characteristic for a poor person, followed closely by settling on never having space, privacy, or ownership.
In slums, remote rural villages, and informal settlements, doctors are often absent due to the inability of residents to afford their standard fees. Clinical officers, nurses, and pharmacists establish small clinics to provide essential primary medical care. Our software is tailor-made for such clinics and their patients.
Medical clinics in slums in Nairobi triumphed through violent demonstrations in recent weeks.
Wearing Taekwondo uniforms represents discipline and being part of something constructive, counteracting the associations of poverty and hopelessness experienced in the slum.
We watched her maneuver one of her arms into a crutch, drag her paralyzed legs to face the door, and twist her waist which guided her shoulders to turn. Then she arose, steadied the shaking and veering of her body and started to move.
The staff have to ensure that they keep track of every single cash transaction with immediate visibility for teams across the hospital, and that registering patients and finding their records happens very quickly from the time a patient arrives.
He knew I was on an important mission. He was adamant to ensure my safety and successful arrival. He knew how much the hospital was helping people survive.
In spite of operating on meager resources because their patients have low-incomes, some clinics are ingeniously surviving.
We imagine a world where poor clinics treating even poorer patients can improve the efficiency of their operations and thus improve care for their patients.
We were walking in mud carrying the commodities we had to use. 40 pound boxes of medications, a team of 11 people stuck on a $3000 medical sail mission; there was no turning back.
What was behind the furrow on his brow? Selecting just the right dhow for this next trip to sail for 6 days on the ocean with patients’ medications.
Digital records in healthcare are essential. We can now reach so many people in distant rural villages. They are efficient and sustainable.
We got good beds with good mattresses, cleaned and brought in a heater for cold nights, and a small gas cooker to make tea and a meal for patients. Our deliveries at the clinic increased from 10 to 30 per month.
Njoroge’s wife died one night when I was on call a few years ago, leaving him with their 8-year-old daughter.
A BandaGo client clinic is trained in best business and clinical practices, and their use of BandaGo to track patient visits, income, expense, and inventory increases from 25% to 100%!
“Everybody is using BandaGo at Naikarra – even our cleaner is putting in soap needs in the system; soon we will put in Maasai spears for the guard,” says Leonard Loontaye.
She burns it and injects it. She tells me she is pregnant and wants to stop. Can the clinic right here in her slum help?
As I examined her, I saw little feet. Breech twins! It was an hour and a half to midnight. It was going to be a long night.
They shifted here from the slums and replicate their habits which include using flying toilets and dumping garbage. They move here to change their lives.
Africa covers 6% of the earth’s total surface area and 20% of the total land area. It has been the fastest-growing part of the world in internet connectivity and use of mobile phones with digital access. BandaGo, which runs on these digital networks, helps medical clinics deliver the right treatment right away.
I didn’t know how long I had been there, but Uzima White medical clinic was my lifeline.
Frontline medical clinics tell us the challenges they face when providing treatment with very limited resources. We then build technology solutions that support their tasks.
He was not afraid, he was terrified. He knew being a second-Dan black belt made him impervious, but he was also keenly aware the ghetto was a fierce place.
The gangs protected me and kept me safe so that I could treat the sick without being attacked.
Just as swiftly, the same hand jerked him violently, and brought him close enough to feel the attacker’s hot breath on his ear.
Most of us do good in our spare time. Some people do it for a living. Nobody told them that pandemics are a reasonable excuse to slow down.
My answer these days is pretty straightforward. Google Maps drives me.
In which fixing motorcycles leads to better healthcare
There’s something amazing about watching people who society assumes should be enemies work together as friends and allies instead.
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting three members of the team from Cana Family Health Care Center – one of our clients – at our home in Kijabe. Cana has been switching over to Banda from paper.
I am old enough to know now that, behind all the sweet stories and pageants of this holiday season, there is a Christmas story reality that gets some people to give up their plans for finding peace and security in life and pursue something bigger but less comfortable.
A nurse, with a half-dead woman strapped to her back with a bedsheet, riding a motorcycle through the woods in the pitch-black night…
– and you are a real, licensed healthcare provider trying to take care of your patients.
The Mukuru slum is home to over half a million people. Walking down Mukuru’s dirt streets, you see people everywhere — shopping, visiting, working, eating, and sleeping. The lively atmosphere is not necessarily what you would expect to see in an underprivileged living settlement.
A child’s terrified cry rings out at 6 a.m. in the poor, high-rise community of Builders outside Nairobi, Kenya. Residents rush to their laundry-strewn balconies to locate the source of the scream, already knowing what happened: another child has fallen from one of the balconies onto the dirt road below.