The prayers of many Nigerians for longer span of life may have touched the Almighty who have answered through Dr. Richard Okoye of the Save-A-Life Hospitals Limited, Port Harcourt.
This cheery news broke on Monday following the launch of a medical App by the famous doctor who is known by many for the multi-million Naira erifice housing the Save-A-Life Group of Companies in Port Harcourt and host of the popular radio and television show, ‘You and Your Health’.
The App which is known as ‘Dr Save A life App’, was launched at 9.30 am on Monday, October 18, 2021 in a historic event beamed live on AIT International and watched by viewers across the globe.
Briefing journalists in Port Harcourt shortly after the launch of the App, the Chairman of Save A Life Group of Hospitals, Dr. Richard Okoye said, “The App is designed to serve as your doctor where there is no doctor. In the rural areas and communities where there are no doctors, if you download this App, you are as good as having a doctor with you”.
Urging Nigerians and all those resident in the country to take advantage of the App for enhanced longer life, Dr. Okoye said the medical application is the first of it’s kind in the globe, adding that the development of the software would make Africa and Africans raise their heads again in global matters.
The famous medic who described the innovation as a bombshell and phenomenal breakthrough in medical health technology, added that the App was developed by one of his subsidiaries, Save A Life Medisoft Limited, a software developing company based in the USA.
According to Dr. Okoye, the App would be downloaded into smart phones, tablets or other compatible electronic devices free of charge for users in Nigeria, but would attract a fee for those outside the country.
He went on: “Just like you go to the hospital and doctor will ask you questions, that’s the same way the App will ask you what’s wrong with you. You are diagnosed through questions and the answers from the App”.
Dr. Okoye, who is the author of over 24 bestselling books, said the patient, after interactions with the App, gets the best first aid and prescription or in the case of a referral, is directed through the App to the nearest hospital in the locality.
He went further to explain that on opening the App, the first thing that pops up is your preferred language, adding that the languages currently available for Nigerians in the App were English, Pidgin, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.
Dr. Okoye revealed that the company was working to include more indigenous Nigerian languages in the App. He also disclosed that the size of the App is just 13mb which through a setting, usage would be data free.
The doctor hinted that because of the volume of usage of the App in Europe and other parts of Africa, the company has concluded plans to expand the servers and reduce network hiccups.
The Dr Save A life App developer is reputed to own the first digital cast lab in Nigeria for heart, neuro, cardiovascular diseases, IVF as well as kidney dialyses and transplant facilities, a development that now sees Nigerians getting treated of these specialized cases at home rather than the costs and risks of traveling abroad.
