Health Camp Drive (HCD)
Enabling health care for pregnant women with emergency health situations in refugee camps & host communities via USSD/Toll free lines/App.
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I am passionate about: Community health empowerment programs and farming for nutrious food and associating with social enterprises that stimulate agribusiness development, health promotion and creating a health economy that fight hunger and appreciates development for all.
A little known fact about me is: I am founder of Health Camp Drive project which works to improve timely health care access by rural pregnant and refugee women/girls in Uganda. And a team leader at Young Agro-Green Africa Network-YAGANET a social enterprise for green jobs.
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Location: Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Health Camp Drive project
"Am simple man with strong charactors"
Baluku Isaya is a passionate community health research worker and a farmer, founder of Young Agro-green Africa Network (YAGANET) and Health Camp Drive a social business enterprise. I am a Youth Technical Specialist with more than 3 yrs experience in implementing youth related programs/projects. Areas of specialization include: Teenage Reproductive Health, Project/Program Management, Community youth empowerment, Financial Inclusion/ literacy, gender, Agricultural practices and Capacity training and health research. A Certified Master Trainer in Financial Literacy by Bank of Uganda.
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Enabling health care for pregnant women with emergency health situations in refugee camps & host communities via USSD/Toll free lines/App.
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Hello Anubha,
Thank you for appreciating our efforts and the idea towards empowering and supporting this vulnerable group of people.
Dear Tuba,
Thanks for your comments and guidance.
During our beneficiary research, we entirely looked at the end user beneficiary of our ICT tools model; these were refugee women and men who should benefit from our HCD Mobile App service providers, some of the key questions during our interaction were related to, the would be challenges to maternal health care access, the best ways to get help when a pregnant woman in emergence situations can quickly get professional health care that are currently far away from the camps? And what could be the best options to use for timely access?
Here, we were testing whether our model answers and will deliver the health care needs of the pregnant refugee women in vulnerable communities in line with what they think can work better for them.
Some of the top learnings and feedback was; the limited friendly health care services (reproductive services) for women and young girls in the camps, silent prevalence of fistula disease among women but they never heard of a health care service provider on that, high cell phone penetration in the camps-however majority owned by men and still they don’t use them for seeking care since its expensive to even obtain airtime and to whom they can call for such a service, few ambulance services (only two ambulances in the whole camp serving a population of over 200,000 refugees), existing health care services in the camps exclude host community and this may increase resentment. Some of the best options from the target beneficiaries was to; if possible identify among them skilled refugee individuals who can be reporting emergencies when they happens, bring the MHC services nearer the camps, increase the number of ambulance services if possible and also health service providers giving out a telephone numbers to which they can send messages just in case there’s need for a certain health care service.
And therefore, I believe using HCD mobile App with an embedded Unstructured Supplementary Service Data-USSD a menu-based service build as real-time open session between application & end-users, and a Toll free number system-where women or girls in emergence situation will call and be linked to care, shall answer needs of these vulnerable refugee women, girls and even men in camps and the host communities. The App is basically used by ‘HCD Team-our trained health service providers’ who will include the Quick Health Drivers (QHDs), Health Camp Ambassadors selected from refugees themselves (HCA) and Standby nurses/midwives/gynecologist. Women seeking health care service will use a toll free line calls and a USSD service system messaging on their local cell phones (using any language) to report their emergency cases. The HCD team through the use of App locates and coordinates the reported emergence case.
The QHDs having a smart phone with HCD mobile App which automatically will link and locates the caller and nearby HCAs. As soon as the HCA reaches the caller, he sends a confirmation note of the reported case. Immediately the QHD receives alarm notification, he drives to the location with a standby nurse/midwife. The caller is reached and taken to a nearby quality health care facility for maternal care service or any other care service.
The wireframe for this HCD Mobile App will be attached.
However, I would wish to get more guidance from you, my email is; tibamanya.son2000@gmail.com
Thanks
Baluku.
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