…As 176 Countries Activate App, 48 Hours After Launch
With just 48 hours after the historic launch of Drsavealife App by Port Harcourt based Doctors Savealife Foundation, a record massive usage has been reported in 176 countries, including Nigeria and the United States of America.
Briefing journalists at his office in Port Harcourt on Saturday, the President of the Foundation, Dr. Richard Okoye said the launch of the App, Monday, October 19, 2021, became necessary following the sad revelation that the life expectancy in Nigeria is 54 years, with the situation now worsened by the Corona virus pandemic.
“I attended a conference in Los Angeles, USA couple of years ago, and there we analyzed the life expectancy of all the countries of the world. And I saw Nigeria seated among the war-turn countries at the life expectancy of 55 years then.
“Unfortunately, we are having 54 today because of Covid and other unfortunate situations in the country. This gave me a burden as to how a country of our status be recording such a deplorable and completely unacceptable life expectancy”, he said, adding that that revelation triggered his vision to do something, so that by year 2025, the current life expectancy would move from 54 years to 70 years.
Dr. Okoye revealed that the App, which was based on Artificial Intelligence, and developed by Medisoft Limited, a subsidiary of Savealife group of companies, based in the United States of America. He said the medical App would serve as ‘a doctor where there is none’.
According to him, with only 34 MB, the App, believed to be the world’s first automated medical self help software, would be downloaded from Apple or Google Play Stores, and used free of charge by persons living in Nigeria.
He said part of the vision of the Doctors SaveALife Foundation is to give the continent of Africa total health through the power of knowledge.
Dr. Okoye disclosed that the development of the multi million Dollars project, was in pursuit of a vow he made to God, to use the Doctors SaveALife Foundation to turn around the health fortunes of Nigerians and Africans at large.
‘We have developed this App in different languages, notably Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and pidgin”, he said, adding that the software had also been translated into French, Spanish, German and Indian languages.
“Depending on understanding, we have developed an algorithm that may even translate it to other native Nigerian languages”, he said.
The medic noted that the health crisis in Nigeria was not principally the lack of infrastructures but what he identifies as lack of health information, revealing that God gave him the insight to decode these information to the common man’s language for easy understanding.
Dr. Okoye while performing a demo to explain it’s functionality, said upon download, user is requested to register and left with variety of options.
Okoye described the App as user friendly, noting that a sick person is asked questions in very simple language for easy understanding, considering that the user is not in the best frame of mind owing to presumed health challenges.
He disclosed that the App is also designed to address the primary health care needs of the people, including mother and child issues.
The medic pointed out that another area of interest for mothers is that the App eliminates the burden of carrying babies’ immunization cards as every necessary information are permanently fed into the App.
Dr. Richard Okoye sits over a conglomerate of companies as President. These are, Savealife Group of Hospitals, SavealifeMedisoft Ltd, a software developing company based in the USA.
He is also the Founder of Drsavealife App as well as President, Doctors Savealife Foundation.
