Kenya, country where humans needs to fight keeping away themselves from rapidly spreading diseases like Malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and many more, are back with optimal use of technology to get rapid improvement in the Human Development Index. Stephen Kyalo and Keziah Mumo are two innovators for the Health care mobile application. This application was promoted by European Capitalist with around $ 100,000.
Report says, Kenya has total population of 41 million and to serve them and keep them healthy there are only 7 thousand doctors. Another figure which was appealing was, 20 million people in Kenya use cell phone. Thus it was good idea of Stephen and Keziah to launch a health care application. Till now, there are 26500 downloads and almost 15000 are active user of this application. Download rate is increasing approximately by 5000 per week at least. This application bridges the gap between patient and doctor. It charges 2 cents for minute of the consultation which is not very costly for financially challenged people in Kenya. But again this is not charged by the developers but by the telecom service provider Safaricom. Shimba technologies the developers of application will be start fetching the revenue by either premium services or from the doctors up to some extent. Doctors can be charged $ 10 for getting user base of this application.
At the end this is win-win-win situation for Kenyans, Doctors and Telecom as well as developer companies. Kenya being an African country, is struggling to improve health indices and innovations like this will surely help government also for betterment of people.
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