Kenya: Once Again Paving The Way In Mobile, This Time With New Health App (video)
20.05.12
Kenya continues to be an innovation hotbed for technologies meant to improve the lives of people in the developing world. Shimba Technologies , a startup based in Nairobi, just released a new smartphone app that connects people in Kenya to quality healthcare and important health-related information. It brings to the country a valuable service typically taken for granted in the wealthier countries of the world.
The app, called MedAfrica , gives anyone with a smartphone a list of medically certified healthcare providers. That might not sound like a major service, but many African countries including Kenya have a major problem with quacks – medically-unqualified people posing as doctors. A recent sting in Kenya resulted in the shutting down of 22 clinics across the country. Eighteen people posing as doctors and dentists were arrested. MedAfrica’s list of practitioners, provided by Kenya’s Medical Practitioners and Dentists’ Board, takes the guesswork out of locating quality medical care.
Source: Singularity Hub