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Encounter with a super user

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And yet they rise

By Kinya Kaunjuga

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest growth in global internet penetration, increasing from less than 1% in 2000 to 30% today. With a laptop or tablet to use technology like Banda's online health management information system called BandaGo, medics are impacting the care of patients and sustaining their small clinic businesses located in slums, informal settlements and remote distant villages.

In our work, there are medical clinics that consistently blow us away with their determination to hone their skills at using BandaGo.

As technology innovators, we call them “super-users” because of their drive to apply every benefit of technology to impact their patients.

Mike, Banda Health Implementer carrying out a refresher training with Silpa, a BandaGo super-user at Matangwe Hospital which is located near Lake Victoria in Western Kenya and the border with Uganda.

From her poised demeanor and quick keystrokes on a shiny purple laptop, one would never guess that Silpa has battled cerebral palsy since childhood. She explains that her aunt Sylvia, the Christian nurse who co-founded the Matangwe Community Health & Development Program (MCHDP), was part of her family “win-team” to aggressively get the disease treated and managed. She says she is lucky that her mother got her diagnosed early in her childhood unlike many parents in developing countries who discover their children have cerebral palsy too late for physical therapy to impact their limbs.

Her family’s care and attention ensured that she never missed a beat in her growth and education. She had attended schools with playgrounds she could never run around on. But as I witnessed her interact with Mike during her training, it is clear her brain is where she runs.

Her well versed knowledge of the system, Matangwe’s processes, and her ideas to apply accounting best practices using BandaGo, made me aware that her weak limbs are just annexes to her ingenuity.

As she prepared to leave the Banda Health office when her training was complete, Mike offered to carry her backpack and she responded, “It’s not that heavy.”

We watched her maneuver one of her arms into a crutch, drag her paralyzed legs to face the door, and twist her waist which guided her shoulders to turn. Then she arose, steadied the shaking and veering of her body and started to move.

Instinctively, Mike grabbed her bag and she smiled. What had transpired was more than system training. As Banda Health our adventures revolve around supporting those who own and run poor clinics treating even poorer patients. They are our heroes because they endure their own personal hardships and yet they rise to help many get good healthcare.

Maybe like Silpa, they face each arduous activity treating patients in slums and remote villages with the mantra, “its.not.that.heavy.”

For the history buffs: Here are Africa's Great Lakes. Can you trace the source of the Nile?

The British Indian Army officer and explorer John Hanning Speke was the first European to discover the lake in 1858. The lake was named by him in the honor of the British monarch, Queen Victoria. Speke also proclaimed this large lake to be the source of the Nile River and his claim was verified by the American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, after he successfully circumnavigated the lake on an expedition in 1875.

From the Sahara to the Savannah, thank you for joining us on our "Adventures with Banda" as we help medics tackle the barriers to accessing good healthcare for the poor.

Our online clinic management system in the hands of medics in East and West Africa, has recorded over 690,000 patient visits so far.

$5000 helps us improve BandaGo and get it in another clinic

Our work wouldn’t be possible without your support. Thanks to you, there are now over 80 frontline medical clinics using BandaGo in 3 countries across Africa.

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Kinya brings passion, an infectious laugh and 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit world to Banda Health. A Texas A&M alumni with a degree in Journalism and Economics, she says, "I love doing things that matter!"

Faster, Better, Stronger: BandaGo’s Impact on Healthcare Productivity

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Episode 2: Jeremy makes it to Galmi

By Kinya Kaunjuga

A regular mode of transport in Galmi, Niger.

My luggage felt like a hot stone slung from my shoulder. I learned that laptops had a short lifespan in the desert. As soon as I met the team at Galmi, I could sense a tangible excitement to find out if Banda’s solution would work for them.

We had translated BandaGo into French because the staff using it spoke French and Hausa interchangeably. I didn’t speak either so we came up with a unique mix of words and phrases that we use to communicate to date.

Galmi Hospital primarily serves farmers, traders, and nomadic people of the Hausa, Fulani and Tamjeq tribes of Niger, and some patients also come from surrounding countries.

Galmi’s outpatient facility faced an additional obstacle. The internet connection in the village, which is located 150km away from the capital, was unreliable. Therefore, the optimal time for Galmi to use BandaGo was when the internet was less congested and more stable, which happened to be at night or before dawn when the local population was asleep.

One of the staff members at Galmi Hospital using BandaGo. With an average of 1,800 visits per week recorded using BandaGo, their outpatient facility must run with the fluidity and precision of a well-oiled machine.

The staff have to ensure that they keep track of every single cash transaction with immediate visibility for teams across the hospital, and that registering patients and finding their records happens very quickly from the time a patient arrives.

They have no choice but to carry out all patient processing with zero margin of error in a matter of minutes compacted between 6am and noon, stop then continue 3 hours later when it cools. In addition, patient registration and financial clearance are an essential part of the healthcare revenue cycle management process which Galmi’s leadership takes very seriously as part of their stewardship of the hospital.

A photo of the actual white-boarding visuals used to brainstorm by Banda and the Galmi staff to find a solution to support the life-changing work they do.

Upon confirming the viability of our solution, a sense of elation washed over the team, and we agreed to celebrate our delight over a meal. Unbeknownst to me, my proclamation of being able to handle spicy food would soon lead me into a bit of a predicament.

We chatted as the cook prepared traditional Nigerien rice and francophone musicians belted out African tunes from the radio.

When one of the Galmi team members loudly said, “He de like hot now, he say he enjoy peppa O!” I noticed the cook gleefully removing box after box from a hollow shelf concealed behind a tie and dye cloth. None of the boxes were labeled but each of their contents filled the air with tantalizing aromas when they landed in a large saucepan atop a crackling flame.

A Nigerien woman making beignets (French doughnuts). "Due to the French influence, they have a lot of bread in the capital city, Naimey," explained Jeremy.

When the meal was served, I glanced around for silverware. Using our familiar phrases from work and some hand gestures, I realized we would eat with our fingers. Not to be deterred, I dove in with the gusto of a man who had just brought an innovation to transform a highly impactful outpatient medical facility in the Sahara Desert! In my euphoric state from a successful implementation, I missed the communication relaying shock and warning that my five-finger scoop of rice was going to hurt. I should have read the look on the faces of everyone as their eyes widened, their jaws dropped, and some even leaned back to watch.

As my mouth closed around the bite I had just taken, my tongue felt like it had been placed in contact with the surface of a piston in an Isuzu direct injection diesel engine which had heated its exhaust fumes to the maximum temperature of 350–400°C before complete combustion took effect.

In Niger's rural villages, kitchens are outside and a traditional 3 stone fire-pit is used to cook all the meals in a home like this one in Galmi.

I tried to chew as fast as I could but the heat from my mouth had already seeped into my nose, my lips had gone numb, and my vision had become blurry.

A sound was emanating from somewhere in my body as my throat seemed to actualize that it was receiving something that should have been chewed, smaller in size, and probably cooled before its delivery. “Grrraaakka kaaahhkkk grrrraaawr stststsssss!” I waved my arm around aimlessly in front of me and felt someone place a glass in my hand. I poured its contents in the direction of my mouth and then held it out again. We repeated this fire extinguishing exercise until one of my eyes could focus and I could distinguish the musicians from the ringing in my ears!

Till this day, I’m Galmi’s point person at Banda Health and my bond with the hospital’s outpatient staff and delight about their wins from using BandaGo have a big place in my heart.

Facts and soundbites from my chat with Jeremy:

Q. What is one word to describe what you saw and felt about Galmi? “It’s just a very harsh environment, the surroundings and anything that you think about even healthcare is very hard to access. In fact, at the hospital, we initially only set up in one wing, the children’s department because of how critical and busy it is.”

Fact: In 2022, about 49% of Niger’s population were under the age of 15.

Q. What have you seen BandaGo transform at Galmi’s outpatient center? “At 6am the number of patients is at its highest so the system cannot be slow AT ALL. Even 1 second of waiting for a process to complete is not acceptable. BandaGo handles that for them okay.”

Fact: The current population of Niger is 26,562,499 as of Sunday, March 12, 2023. Niger population is equivalent to 0.31% of the total world population.

Q. What is your one wish for them? “For water. For a climate with seasons. Also, for help during the Malaria season which has a very big toll on the health and lives of Nigeriens with unpredictable suffering including the death of children.”

An aerial view of Galmi Hospital.

Saving Time and Lives - donate $1 Per Patient Visit to Bring BandaGo to Clinics in Need

So far Galmi Hospital has used BandaGo to provide 208,000 Patient Visits in their outpatient facility, averaging about 1,800 outpatient visits per week.

Right now it costs us $1 Per Patient Visit to equip clinics with BandaGo clinic management system – helping them efficiently systematize everything from the moment a patient arrives at their reception until they check out.

Our work wouldn’t be possible without your support. Thank you for joining us in building technology solutions that improve healthcare management in some of the toughest places in the world.

In case you missed it, check out episode 1 of this story on our website here.

Photos courtesy of: Tommy Sweets, Lindsay Gossage, Kaleb Bledsoe, Banda Health. Facts sources: United Nations Data Worldodometer, Statista Research Department. 

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Kinya brings passion, an infectious laugh and 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit world to Banda Health. A Texas A&M alumni with a degree in Journalism and Economics, she says, "I love doing things that matter!"

Inconsequential

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Where everything takes cover from noon to 3

By Kinya Kaunjuga

Diori Hamani International Airport in Naimey, the capital city of Niger.

Nothing could have prepared me for the suffocating heat that engulfed my body as I stepped out of the airport. I tried to breathe as I looked for the concierge. My lungs seemed to rebel resulting in a combination of a loud gasp, cough and sneeze, “GRRRAKKA Kaaahhkkk grrrraaawr aaatchoooo!” resembling an alley cat choking on a fishbone.

As I tried to gather whatever ounce of self-dignity I had left after the unprecedented cacophony I had just publicly displayed, someone close by said, “Eh! These first timers to Niger O! Dey go suffer our deep heat O!”

Nigerien men dressed in traditional attire. In Africa, face paint is usually made out of clay with different hues using dried plants and flowers. Each color and symbol has a certain meaning. Yellow is used for joy, energy and warmth.

While frantically digging through my bag to find a nose wipe (it had felt inconsequential to carry a handkerchief since getting a runny nose in 104°F weather had seemed unlikely), I searched the crowd of onlookers through blurry eyes and the sweat dripping from my forehead.

At that moment, I almost cursed being a developer because the hours spent working indoors meant I had an immunity similar to that of a breastfeeding infant. I thought to myself, maybe those military guys delayed my exit from customs to ensure I went outside right when the sun was at its hottest and everything took cover!

Known as the "Deserts of Niger," they usher sandstorms which deposit sand wherever they choose.

With a kinesthetic awareness comparable to a ballerina – which I did not know I possessed – I navigated the baggage claim crowd with my newly discovered sense of space and rhythm. I swerved and twisted through the throng of arrivals then catapulted into a car whose door was being held open by a man waving a sign with my name on it. In no time, we were speeding off into the city of Naimey on a road emitting hazy waves from the scorching tarmac.

Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, making it the largest country in West Africa, with over 80 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara Desert.
""There are no direct flights from Kenya to Niger. You get on a plane on its way to Burkina Faso which stops in Niger and you get off. Before Ethiopian Airlines started plying the route, you’d go to France and then connect to Niger," explains Jeremy, Banda Systems Administrator.

I didn’t realize when my pulse had stopped racing and my fingers were no longer clenching my bag. As the occasional breeze wafted in and out of the car windows, the air was rendered with a musician softly crooning on the radio. What I had noticed were the driver’s rapid glances my way that reduced gradually and were replaced by his head bobbing to the music and a relieved grin from observing my quick recovery.

He knew I was on an important mission. And just like all the other travelers he had ferried to and from Galmi, he was adamant to ensure my safety and successful arrival. He knew how much the hospital was helping the local communities find hope to live and survive illnesses in a place where few outsiders dared to go.

Family and friends sit outside the Galmi Hospital, in Galmi, Niger. They travel long distances with patients and camp outside the hospital for many hours or days to be close to their loved ones as they receive treatment.

Always improving and innovating for the good of mankind

Jeremy Ogembo, Banda's Health Systems Administrator standing outside Galmi Hospital in Galmi, Niger. (Hospital is spelled in French, the national language of Niger because it was colonized by the French).

In the next episode, we follow Jeremy, our Banda Health Systems Administrator, on his epic mission to provide a groundbreaking solution for Galmi Hospital to use BandaGo as their choice of a health management information system for their busy outpatient services.
 
Banda Health is thankful for your support because it’s making it possible for our developers to keep building our software technology that is used in some of the harshest most distant places on earth to enable medical facilities operating there achieve their goal of bringing mercy to all through healthcare.

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The Little Clinic That Could

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I think I can. I think I can. I knew I could.

By Kinya Kaunjuga

The ambulance that takes expectant women and mothers and children under the age of five who live in Podor District, Senegal to the nearest medical clinic. This ensures they get maternity services and immunizations without fail. Photo courtesy ©Tdh/Christian Brun.

An unequivocal determination to alleviate the suffering of humans seems to be an underlying characteristic found in each of the people who open a medical clinic in some of the poorest places in the world.

A clinic that uses BandaGo located in Imara Daima in Nairobi, Kenya.

By opening little clinics in some of the toughest places to live, clinical officers, nurses and pharmacists are using their ability to help individuals who cannot afford medical treatment in large hospitals.

In spite of operating on meager resources because their patients have low-incomes, some clinics are ingeniously surviving.

A month turns into three and then into a year and now we’re even seeing these little clinics scaling into a second location!

This means they have worked tirelessly on the difficult balance of providing healthcare services to the poor and low-income earners while running their small clinic business with the least amount of resources, staying open year after year, and growing into reliable neighborhood treatment facilities that are just around the corner for residents.

A medical clinic that uses BandaGo in Githurai, Kenya. Can you spot all the services they offer? Find the correct answer at the end of the article! Hint: "Daktari wa meno" is Swahili for "Doctor of Teeth" and "MIWANI" means Spectacles.

Banda Health identifies the capacity of little clinics to remove barriers to access good healthcare for the poor and we help such clinics fine tune their survival tactics through building technology that streamlines their business and clinical processes and ultimately the level of healthcare they administer.

Inside some of the Little Clinics that use BandaGo

A few of the clinical officers and nurses who own and run little clinics enjoy making them look bright, colorful and spotless, juxtaposed against the hardships of the neighborhoods they are in.

Below are photos of some receptions and doorways of clinics that use BandaGo and we would love to know which one you think is the most visionary for a little clinic!

A piece of gypsum ceiling, a few LED lights, flowing white net curtains, checked tiling and utlramarine blue seats with chrome finish. It's hard to beat the Wellstar clinic's decked out reception. They use BandaGo in Utalawa, Kenya.
Another clinic that uses BandaGo has created their reception with a section of wall moulding, gypsum ceiling, uniform white floor tiles, a grand laminate front desk counter top, chrome backed seats and splashes of fuscia including in their tea and coffee station! They are in Embakasi, Kenya.
In Githurai 45 in Kiambu, Kenya, a neon blue satin curtain draped with gentle folds ending in a wide hem distinguishes the entrance to this little medical clinic that uses BandaGo, inviting someone to curiously approach it and ignore any concrete drab!
Using Mazeras stone wallpaper, minimalist straight back chairs, a few sunken lights and a clear glass door from floor to ceiling, when you walk into their reception cooled by off-white ceramic floor tiles, you'd never guess this BandaGo user clinic is in one of the hottest places in Kenya - Machakos.

To see them make it over the hill, just makes us feel like we can do anything!

Thanks to you:

In the last four weeks, clinics using BandaGo recorded 22,890 Patient Visits.

Right now it costs us $1 Per Patient Visit to equip clinics with BandaGo clinic management system – helping them efficiently systematize everything from the moment a patient arrives at their reception until they check out.

Using BandaGo in these low-resource clinics means they no longer worry about cash or drugs being stolen or medical records getting lost. There is no more wondering, “What did I do with this patient the last time?” They can find all their clinic’s data with just a few clicks.

The net result is that these little clinics which are a lifeline to so many, can have more time, more money and more information to use to take better care of patients. 

Spot the medical services...

Besides primary medical care, the little clinic in the third photo (St. Mary Health Services) offers optical, dental and ultrasound services all on one floor above the bookshop and auto spare parts shop which one can peruse while waiting.

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Kinya brings passion, an infectious laugh and 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit world to Banda Health. A Texas A&M alumni with a degree in Journalism and Economics, she says, "I love doing things that matter!"

The Slum Code of Conduct

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The Slum Code of Conduct

Rule no. 1, Mind your neighbor's business, keenly

By Kinya Kaunjuga

The entrance to a gated community in a slum in Kenya. They are called plots. A plot is where multiple people rent homes in a shared space with a single entrance and exit for safety.
The inside of a plot where about 10 families live. Everybody's laundry is usually hung to dry in the middle of the plot.

When you know your neighbors well and they like you, they will do their best to save crucial items such as your mattress and your children when a fire breaks out in the slum. Fires are as common as dirt.

Rule no. 2: Make sure one of your children gets an education so they get a job and get their siblings out of the slum.

In slums only a quarter of students attend formal schools.

Rule no. 3: Find the cheapest and closest medical clinic to you. There’s always someone near you that’s sick and it always spreads throughout the plot.
 
This is where Banda Health comes in.

Co-founders Dr. Steve Letchford and Mr. Wes Brown wanted to find a significant and scalable way to help poor clinics improve the care they deliver to even poorer patients. Given their expertise in clinical care, management, and computer programming – and seeing the benefits that hospitals gain by using electronic health management systems – they began to develop a Health Management Information System (HMIS) specifically designed for the poor clinics, commonly referred to as Frontline Medical Clinics (FMCs).
 
Surprisingly, internet access was available even in the poorest regions of Kenya. The system they began prototyping in 2018, is called BandaGo.

The street outside a medical clinic that uses BandaGo in Mathare slum.

For the first several years, the Banda team worked with a few clinics to build and test software that helped them run their clinics and care for their patients, learning quickly what worked in their settings and what didn’t.

A main street in a slum in Nairobi where residents can do all sorts of shopping.
The Banda Health team courageously blend in and walk in slums to visit medical clinics that use BandaGo on January 26th, 2023.

BandaGo is designed to help medical clinics maximize their use of resources, freeing up time and money for patient care, and helping them readily assess their business operations so they can make business decisions strategically. 

Because BandaGo is an online solution, barriers to scaling are reduced, and setup and support are streamlined. Clinics receive immediate access to every additional business or patient care functionality as they are released.

Clinics only require a computer (or tablet) and basic access to the internet (widely available in slums).  To increase the clinic’s ownership of the change management process, Banda Health charges each clinic a pay-as-you-go subscription fee of $5/month.

The current 75 frontline medical clinics subscribed to BandaGo HMIS throughout Kenya, Uganda and Niger have recorded over 300,000 patients visits per year.

The Banda Health team getting feedback from a BandaGo user in a clinic in Mukuru kwa Njenga slum. BandaGo is an online solution and has been in constant development over the last five years, with improvements based on feedback from users in the field.

By implementing BandaGo, clinics have stopped running out of medicine, cut days of paperwork, and eliminated the need to guess at their clinic’s financial health. By keeping their businesses healthy, clinics now have more time for direct patient care and can care for more patients.

Clinics can: rapidly identify patients at presentation, track inventory, reduce time summarizing income and expenses, extend and manage credit to patients, speed up government outpatient reporting, and track patient-related items like number of visits, past visits, primary diagnosis, and payments.

Banda Health's development team consistently checks-in with BandaGo users in their clinics to ensure they are identifying the problems they face and then creating, testing and validating solutions to address those problems.
Some of the Banda Health team, Kevin (Data Analyst), Andrew (Developer) and Clinton (Developer) outside a clinic that uses BandaGo Health Management Information System.

Improving healthcare with technology

A medic in a low-resource Frontline Medical Clinic using BandaGo.

We imagine a world where poor clinics treating even poorer patients can improve the efficiency of their operations and thus improve care for their patients.

Using a lean build-measure-learn approach, Banda Health through your giving is committed to significantly addressing barriers to access good healthcare for people who live in slums, rural villages and informal settlements through our technology solutions.  

Thank you for joining your commitment to ours. 

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Heroes have bad days too

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Designed to be unreachable

By Kinya Kaunjuga

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A sign the SAFARI Doctors team encountered on their way to carry out a mobile medical clinic near the Kenya - Somali border.

He could no longer feel his feet.

In a way he was thankful because it also meant he couldn’t feel the coral piercing his skin, and the fish stinging him. Maybe they numbed their prey with poison before they ate it.

It was becoming obvious to Jackson Mugambi, a clinical officer at SAFARI Doctors, that Kiwayu island was designed to be unreachable.

After completing a clinic on an island, the SAFARI Doctors pack up and set off to the next one.

He didn’t know what was worse, the way the box of medications was crushing his shoulders or how it was making him sink further into the knee deep muddy water.

As though his mind was intricately connected to the hope of reaching land, his legs seemed to carry him toward the shore on their own despite his total disorientation from pain and exhaustion.

He could no longer see the rest of his team but he knew they were ahead of him and he also knew many people were counting on them for treatment that day.

Communities living in Lamu's islands, mainland and the Boni forest wait for medical care from the SAFARI Doctors.

It was a normal work day and we were on a routine medical sail.

After completing the clinic on Mkokoni island, we packed up and set off to Kiwayu island which is on the Kenyan border with Somali.

A typical SAFARI Doctors medical sail route. Kiwayu island is at the top right.

Besides being the furthest island on the east of the Lamu archipelago, we would also discover why Kiwayu was known for its high hills that framed the ocean’s horizon and its tall sand dunes with pointed peaks.

About 32 nautical miles from Mkokoni – a distance of 62km – our boat simply ground to a halt. We had gradually been sailing above cusps of sand and coral when the ocean dried up.

We could see the island about 1km away but were stuck in the boat because of a low tide.

The view from the top of a hill on Kiwayu island.

We decided to walk. It takes months to plan a medical outreach.

Also we were keenly aware the communities living there could not afford to travel to the mainland for medical care and so they would be waiting anxiously for our clinic.

Kiwayu island does not have a functioning dispensary building so the community uses woven benches as tables and chairs to help SAFARI Doctors set up a clinic under this tree.

The tide can take between 4 to 5 hours to come back so we had to leave the boat in the ocean.

On foot, the fastest and strongest of us made it to the island in an hour.

Once each of us reached the island, we would treat each others cuts from the coral reef. Then as soon as everyone was stitched up and bandaged, we continued climbing the island.

A moving clinic means medicine, documents, water, and anything else that is needed is carried from the boat onto the island. So everyone who is able steps off the boat with a package.

We were supposed to begin the medical clinic at 9am but we started at 11am.

The islanders had waited for us and we couldn’t blame the captain. Some islands are raised so they’re very hard to reach.

There's always a line at the pharmacy. Even at this makeshift one set up on an island!

Technology in caring hands can make a world of difference

A cellphone torch works wonders in a mobile clinic as shown here by a SAFARI Doctors medic.
A laptop with internet access is another powerful tool in frontline medical clinics. The SAFARI Doctors use Banda Health's technology solution BandaGo as their online Health Information Management System (HMIS).
Jackson Mugambi, a clinical officer with SAFARI Doctors still bears scars on his feet from what he calls "one of my worst days at work" but laughs about being the last and slowest to reach Kiwayu island that day!

“When I came to Lamu to work with SAFARI Doctors, I saw that we needed a better health management system.

We had 3 options and looked at sustainability, cost, saving time and money, and improving the care of patients by using digital data storage.

Most facilities like ours at SAFARI Doctors are poor facilities that treat the most poor people. So saving time and money is critical to sustain our operations and continue serving patients.

Our biggest wins with BandaGo are its ability to capture, store and retrieve data, and generate reports.

It used to take one whole day to complete mandatory government reports. Now, even when I am not in our facility I can tell my staff to generate the reports and forward them to the ministry of health (MOH) and it takes less than 10 minutes digitally,” says Mugambi.

$5000 helps us improve BandaGo and get it into another clinic

Thanks to you, our technology solution BandaGo continues to support the heroes who run medical clinics in slums and remote villages with an affordable yet robust health management information system.

Thanks to you, the clinics using our technology have now treated more than half a million patients as of this year, 2022!

We hope you’ll continue to help us reach our goal of treating 1 million patients in 150 clinics by the end of 2023 because you’ve made all this possible!

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Photos in this article are courtesy of SAFARI Doctors, @dukprnc_creativephotos and @nyuso_za_nairobi.

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Kinya brings passion, an infectious laugh and 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit world to Banda Health. A Texas A&M alumni with a degree in Journalism and Economics, she says, "I love doing things that matter!"