Teheca

Every day over 800 mothers die due to avoidable post-birth-related complications, yet with low cost and low tech solutions and large numbers can be saved.
We believe that timely identification and referral is key in reducing the high infant and maternal mortality rates globally. 

Teheca helps connect new and expectant mothers to nurses for personalized in-home postnatal care services, like physical checkups, child and mother best care practices training, breastfeeding training among many others all to ensure that any complication that arises in the mother or baby can be timely identified, managed and referred. 
By building onto the community-based health delivery model, maternal health care services can be extended outside the walls of the hospital and allow many more mothers to access the much-missed postnatal care in which most mortalities occur.

Postnatal care (PNC) programmes are among the weakest of all reproductive and child health programmes in Africa and among mother according to WHO, yet the highest infant and maternal mortalities occur during this period. 

When mothers don't attend postnatal care services, a lot of complications that arise after hospital discharge go undetected and hence turning fatal later on,  spending way to much time in long queues hospital queues, accessibility to health care services as well lack of knowledge about the importance of postnatal care services are some of the reasons for missing postnatal care services among many others. 

Through our mobile app, we connect new and expectant mothers to nurses for in home care services and support. 

In 3 simples steps Mothers are able to find and connect with nurses and community health workers closest to them for personalised and timely checkups during the postnatal period.

We recruit, up-skill and equip qualified nurse and registered community workers with medical care kits to conduct comprehensive checkup to identify any complications that might arise in mothers health.

Within Teheca is a QA forum that enables mothers to ask questions and get answers from both nurses and fellow parents anonymously, we believe that  the forum will empower mothers to seek and receive context-relevant and actionable health care information hence empowering them to identify complication in both themselves and their babies.

Today Teheca targets the millennial age parents who are now in the childbearing age of 25 - 45 years living in the urban and peri-urban areas who is having a second, third or fourth child in which one of the parents  values time, convenience and flexibility while being technologically savvy and have experience using on-demand services.

To an extreme definition, the ultimate customer has a lost a child early in the postnatal period to an avoidable complication and/or do not have family members close to offering social support.

We engage with nurses to ensure that they have the tools they need to conduct in home checkup and provide mothers with Teheca app from which they can make care request aswell as question within the app.

For mothers who miss out postnatal care services due different challenges with access health facilities, they are able to now receive dedicated and personalised care in the comfort of their homes, this allows for ample time between the mother and nurses to consult, train and empower mothers with the support needed to rise health babies and recover after birth.

Teheca empowers mothers with the ability to bring health closer to them and with the support extended to nurses, health care is taken outside the walls of the hospital.

We combine offline health care delivery with online service, at the core we connect physical nurses to physical mothers but also provide for online consultation through Teheca app.

We are also building self assessment for common postnatal challenges like postnatal depression, over bleeding, infections and diarrhoea in babies. As of today postnatal care is delivered in the hospital all over the world with mothers having to go back to hospital for these check-ups, at Teheca we are changing the paradigm to bring postnatal care services to mothers in homes and online. 

Teheca is android app that 2 sided market places that list nurses and connects to the mothers.

The self assessment platform is built on top of RappidPro  an open source messaging platform by Nyruka and UNICEF.

We are leveraging existing technologies like android and Rappidpro to provide a new way of delivering much needed timely postnatal care services. 

Technology is an enabler to our solution as opposed to it being a solution, 

Rappidpro is widely used by UNICEF Ureport platform in conducting surveys, registration of pregnant woman, there are over 435966 ureport users in Uganda alone  and over 10millions across 67 countries.

The projects has been adopted by many health care programs with family connect being the biggest in Uganda, the project shares context relevant maternal health information to mothers who are registered through the platform during the pregnancy period. 

We believe in a world where mothers and babies do not have to die during and after delivery because of avoidable after birth complications.There are many drivers to this problem but the root cause we are focusing on is limited access to quality delivery kits, postnatal care awareness and services to mothers.What we do is giving access via web and mobile platforms that connects mothers to nurses for in home postnatal care services and delivery mama kits

1. We measure how many in-home care requests by mother.

2. We measure how many delivery mama kits have been sold to mothers.

3. We measure how many nurses have been given work and how much they have earned.

We are currently serving over 3000 users with over 500 Weekly active users and hope to grow to 7000 users by end of 2021. 

We believe we have the potential of impacting over 600000 mothers annually with our care services, maternal health information and products. 

Our solution is focused on reducing infant and maternal mortality, in the next 5 years is to have reached over 10000 mothers and averted over 3000 complications through extending timely health care services to mothers. 

We want to have enabled over 5000 mothers access postnatal care services through our platform. 

We want to have reduced expenditure on postnatal care for a given family by 45%

We believe we shall have been able to provide over 3000 health workers with an income source and made them over $1m in revenue

Regulation requires that health data be hosted within the country and this increases the cost of service delivery and server costs.

Need to test and have the self assessment developed test and validated by ministry of health

Working with local mobile network operators will provide to secure and affordable in country hosting which solve our first challenge.

Partnership with global and local health care patterns to support in the development of self assessments will allow for credibility and hence making it possible have faster feedback and approvals.

4 Full time staff

3 Part time staff

250 nurses/contractors

Daniel is a full stack Software Developer with special interest in android, web and mobile application development & innovations in the healthcare space. He has worked with tech startups like Pi Technologies Uganda & Esavings club, a FinTech startup with roots in Switzerland, Mexico and Uganda. 

He is a graduate of Makerere University, Uganda with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, majoring in Software Development with experience of 5 years

Asha is a business student graduate from Makerere University Bachelors of Business Administration , a Leadership Development Program graduate from Compassion International), Small and Medium Enterprise Management Training graduate(Orient Business Academy & Makerere University Business School) & Foundations of Assisting in Homecare(University of New York).

Oliver is a Public Health Officer with a passion for reducing disease burden in Uganda. 

She has 8 years experience in Home care, Palliative care, Community TB screening, CBDOTS management ,VHTs/OVC management, entrepreneurship for community livelihoods and have been in a managerial position for the 7 years.

Mildred is a Nursing Officer currently pursuing her Masters degree in Public Health from Uganda Christian University. She has been working in the Reproductive Health Arena for the past four years with Marie Stopes Uganda. This work includes provision of family planning services and counselling among women of reproductive age and HIV positive youth.

Teheca makes revenue through charging a commission on the service fees for in home checkups, dedicated care and sale of maternal health products. 

Future models include the charging online consultations services and e-commerce centred around the maternal health products.

Financial sustainability will be making as many care request and consultations as possible but definitely considering rising external investment capital.

We are seeking to build partnerships with organisation both for profit and NGOs interested in the fight for maternal health build lasting solution for Africa in line with reducing infant and maternal mortality through improving health care delivery methods and channels. 

As a company strategy partnership to help us grow our company to new markets is very important especial within the subsaharan region which have major similarities and challenges in the space of reproductive, maternal and child health care. 

Fund-raising and connecting with potential funders is number 3 on our agenda, as funding allows for faster product delivery and testing. 

Building a team and Board members, do you have the skills we need, health care, software engineer and business development and willing to provide us your time and skill, we are happy to have.

We are seeking to build partnerships with organisation both for profit and NGOs interested in the fight for maternal health build lasting solution for Africa in line with reducing infant and maternal mortality through improving health care delivery methods and channels. 

As a company strategy partnership to help us grow our company to new markets is very important especial within the subsaharan region which have major similarities and challenges in the space of reproductive, maternal and child health care. 

UNICEF to provide technical support in the use for Rappid Pro platform.

MTN Uganda to work together towards extending better maternal health services from institutional level to the individual level through the annual maternal health marathon. 

Nyaruka, builders of Rappidpro platform 

Teheca is centred on improving outcomes of maternal health which predominantly affects women, our goal is to empower women with actionable and context relevant information to make important decision in regards to their health and that of their babies. 

With over 800 women dying everyday in SubSaharan African alone due to avoidable post birth complications, we believe that timely identification and referral of complications that arise after child birth is key in reducing the high mortality rate of mothers.

Through our platform we connect with mothers with qualified nurses for comphernsive and personalised in home checkups especially after child birth. During these visits mothers have a safe space to share challenges being faced during the postpartum period , have their health assessed and ensure that they are healing and recovering as expected.

Nurses worldwide are predominantly women and Teheca we work closely with nurses, community health workers and first-line responders to offer our health care service. through our services we help provide alternative sources of income for them.

Through our platform we connect with mothers with qualified nurses for comprehensive and personalised in home checkups especially after child birth.

During these visits mothers have a safe space to share challenges being faced during the postpartum period , have their health assessed and ensure that they are healing and recovering as expected.

Nurses worldwide are predominantly women and Teheca we work closely with nurses, community health workers and first-line responders to offer our health care service. through our services we help provide alternative sources of income for them.

Health workers are at the center of the work with do and to ensure the best of result, we provide health worker with continuous online and onsite training and support especially for the community health worker to ensure that they provide quality services to mothers.

Through our app we also provide nurses with income opportunities for every visit they conduct they earn 4X the average daily earning of a nurse.

In Uganda today Teheca is a first choice option for nurses as a source of employment, post COVID-19 we believe we shall be able to provide 10X the current nurse base with work and opportunities as we anticipate arise in need for personalised health care.

For every nurse that joins Teheca, they receive a care kit and they earn 5X an average salary of a nurse.