SMARTDOCTOR

SMARTDOCTOR is a social start up aiming at having a Uganda free from alcohol related diseases. Our mission is to create awareness about the dangers of alcohol among youths for a healthy community. Our value proposition is a free and confidential platform to prevent and manage alcohol related diseases.

SMARTDOCTOR is a social start up aiming at having a Uganda free from alcohol related diseases. Our mission is to create awareness about the dangers of alcohol among youths for a healthy community. Our value proposition is a free and confidential platform to prevent and manage alcohol related diseases.  Our key activities are sensitization, counseling and hospital referrals.

So far we have started solving the alcohol challenges in Uganda , through conducting community out reaches in Kampala universities and in collages, and buy sensitizing youths about the dangers of alcohol, as well as using technology to transform lives of many youths who are struggling with alcohol related problems and diseases around the world. SMARTDOCTOR has started online awareness Facebook campaigns and What’sapp helpline where at-least 20 youths who drink alcohol and have alcohol related problems are calling and texting us every day asking questions and supports on how to stop drinking alcohol.

We are planning to expand our sensitizations campaigns in the all parts of Uganda to reach out many youths who are in need of our services, SMARTDOCTOR is also planning to build a mobile liver check up system to help people who are at risks of developing alcohol related diseases to track and see how alcohol might have affected they organs, so that they can started preventing the cause for the well-being of people and as well as advocating so that the government can created strong laws that control the alcohol abuse. Since many youth are connected on social medial platforms we shall be using drama and artistic arts videos which provide educative information about how alcohol affected the organs and the wellbeing of a person. 

Did you know that alcohol related diseases contribute 67% of deaths in Uganda every year? And 64% of youth living in Kampala have confessed having unsafe sex with the friends after getting drunk which led them to have HIV positive according to the Ugandan Youth Development Link (UYDL)! And according to the WHO (world health organization) 2015 Uganda has the highest level of pure alcohol consumption of 23.7 liters per capital every year and Alcohol liver cirrhosis contributes 68.7 % of deaths every year including Cancers, Strokes and liver diseases.

Due to customer discovery interviews conduct in Kampala collages as our selected beach head market,150 interviews were conducted and most of students who were interviewed had alcohol related problems and 80% had tried to stop drinking alcohol but failed due to lack of support. This motivates me to toward my vision, And so far we have started using technology to conduct online sensitization on our Facebook page and we opened up a whats-app line where youths  have started calling and get counseling’s on to stop drinking alcohol, as well as referring them to the nearest hospital for liver checkup.

At the end of in the end of 2017 we expect having reached out at least 50000 youths in Uganda and having sensitized them about the dangers of alcohol. We also expect at least 40 calls every day Youths asking questions on how to stop drinking alcohol .And having started developing a mobile liver checkup and our mobile app. We are targeting Youths from 14 to 35 years old in Uganda who drink alcohol and who are exposed to the risks of developing diseases due alcohol consumption. Our channels are social media platforms, community out reaches and TVs and Radios.

Track calls in our CRM and phones - 200 calls every months of people asking questions on how to stop or to reduce the alcohol consumption

Track via our CRM and the mobile health check up data base - 80 people passing the liver screening check up every week.

on our Facebook page and on our websites. - 5 people every moths sharing they story of how SMARTDOCTOR impacted positively they life style .

Through using digital technologies to sensitize and referring people to their nearest health care for a liver check up since it the its one of the important organs and most affected ,these make our innovation. Most of our stakeholders focus on sensitizing youth about the dangers of alcohol but they don’t do liver checkups hospital referrals which could help the victims to see how the liver is getting affected and start applying preventive methods and seeks for recovery supports and seeks for recovery and medical supports.

Through downloading our mobile app reaching out many people who needs our services and through conducting community out reaches all districts of Uganda with the mobile liver check up people who are sensitized will have access to our technology and we shall meet their needs of checking their livers. We shall be tracking our impact when more people are calling and texting on our mobile app as well as when the alcohol related deaths reduce at least 5% in the Ugandan community.

Our solution will be accessed through downloading our free mobile app and through conducting sensitization on TVs AND Radios as well as the social media people will know about our services and start benefiting from them and through organizing  community outreaches to sensitize youths about the dangers of alcohol .

Our project will be sustainable through creating Health care centers where people come for liver check up and treatment in order to prevent livers diseases that might have developed due to alcohol consumption. Health events, where people pay some money to participate to drama and arts that provide educative information, about how alcohol affects the body and the well-being of people. Through counseling people will contribute some consultation fees to support the project and we shall provide youths activities like soap making as they ways of preventing youth who are at risks of being developing alcoholism because of being idols to participating in the income generating project and benefit from it.

Some of the barriers to our solution are, lack Organizations that are also working on the same problem as our partners. Reaching youth living in rural areas due to lack of transport and funds to buy learning materials like, projectors to enable youth watch the videos on how alcohol affects the body. Lack of financial support to start income generating project that could enable the project to be self sustainable and create positive impact in youths who are at risks of developing alcohol related diseases and problems

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Participating in the solve summit will enable me to meet different entrepreneurs from different countries around the world which presents a great opportunity for learning, sharing experiences and possibilities for partnerships and get mentoring support that will help me to develop successful social enterprises and also get linked to possible funding opportunities around the world, and we shall have a higher chance of getting the funding because being a participant in the solve provides us authentication as well as having access to the solve flagship annual event at MIT with solvers community members.

SMARTDOCTOR we are just a startup seeking to scale up and we have no partnership yet yet get.

My competitors are; Girl guide association. UYDL Ugandan Youth Development Link.