Hemoraid

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Inspiration

In my home country, getting a blood transfusion could mean the line between life and death. In evets when hospitals have no blood in their banks, families of loved ones use social media to appeal to the public for help. Such was the case during demonstrations last year in June where most injured people needed blood but without a proper structure of getting it to the hospitals they were in. Hece the inception of Hemoraid, a web app which ensures that blood donations appealsgo to the right people in time for them to go donate blood. Ambulances are also not fully intergrated in the health emergency helpline and the webapp allows for organisations running ambulance services to respond to calls at the tap of a button.

What it does

The app has 4 sections for hospitals, for donors, for patients and for ambulance services. A hospital in need of a certain blood type sends a notification to the donors web app and also through sms to their phones to ensure they get it. The donors respond by accepting or declining the request. Patients who sign up ca request for an ambulance from the app and indicate their symptoms for better preparedness of the first responders. In areas where smartphones are unavailable, USSD powered by Africasalking is used for 2G connectivity to request for an ambulance and the ambulance dispatcher responds with an SMS on status of ambulance dispatched.

How we built it

The app is built mostly using Bolt.new prompts with edits going into the details of the application. We have included AfricasTalking communication APIs for USSD and SMS which mostly serve the Kenyan market. The app also utilizes Supabase for storage and lingo.dev to translate the site(Swahili translate does not work but would have been ideal)

Challenges we ran into

Lingo.dev not translating the site to Swahili. Unable to get a unique domain for the app due to geographical reasons from the domain provider. Data protection is a challenge we forsee as health data is very sensitive and would require regulation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to connect blood donors to those that need it and bringing ambulance services closer to people in all areas.

What we learned

I learnt that this might be a region specific solution as most developed countries have proper use of their emergency services to intergrate the features we have in their system.

What's next for Hemoraid

Hemoraid will continue to be developed in colloboration with other industry players to ensure these crucial services are easily accessible to all Kenyan citizens and East Africa at large.

Built With

• africastalking
• google-maps
• lingo.dev
• supabase
• vite