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IBM and David Clark Cause today announced the Middle East and Africa regional winner of the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge.
This year’s regional winning solution is from a team of developers out of Nairobi, Kenya, who designed the Mbali Health application that connects patients to care providers in a socially distanced way.
With the COVID-19 pandemic actively spreading among citizens and with countries facing increased lockdown procedures, it was increasingly difficult for patients to gain access to medical care in a safe and socially distanced manner. Through the Call for Code Challenge, the developers of Mbali Health created a solution for Kenyans powered and secured by IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Virtual Servers and Hyper Protect DBaas with MongoDB, a simple chat interface that gives the patients easy access to healthcare providers through WhatsApp. With over 90% mobile penetration, the easy to use application is effortlessly accessible to a large population of Kenyans allowing for them to interact and receive diagnosis from physicians from the comfort of their homes.