The inspiration to create the KETI app began in 2017 when Dr. Nabuuma Shamim observed the challenges many parents in Uganda and across Africa face in understanding their medical records, the CEO of Chil Femtech Center and the KETI app co-founder tells Sputnik Africa.
Dr. Shamim further adds that the tool was initially created to interpret cancer results, but over the years it has been developed to also interpret other medical documents.
“The KETI tool has two versions. It has the version where it can be used in hospitals, health facilities, and it also has a version for anyone who can use it, for example, […] If you want your medical documents to be interpreted for you, or you have a health related question that you'd want to ask KETI, you just get on as it's accessible via web and WhatsApp,” Shamim explains.
The Ugandan emphasizes the importance of working with governments to enhance healthcare systems. She suggests partnering with government health departments to collect and analyze health data, which could help monitor public health trends, identify outbreaks, and foster more effective public health innovations.
“We are also looking at working together with the existing health care infrastructure of the different countries, not specifically Uganda alone, but this is something that we are looking at a global level, different African countries. So that we provide support for health information dissemination that people can be able to know exactly how they should handle their health. And in languages that are more familiar to them. So this gives them the feel of, I am part of it,” she says.
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