Guide Santé Burkina Faso

About the project

The Burkina Faso Guide Santé (Health Guide) Project – an application designed, programmed and developed by physicians – seeks to address all the problems related to health information in Burkina Faso. Once the application is implemented, we hope to improve availability of useful information about the various healthcare centres, such as geographic location – visiting hours – addresses – services available – insurance partners – medical procedures and prices – additional examinations.Better patient management: using this application, patients will consult doctors in the early stages, as they will be quickly directed to the health centre nearest their place of residence.Improved monitoring: We hope to improve the follow-up of patients, pregnancies, vaccination schedules and reduce sequelae and the mortality rate due to an absence of follow-up. This saves time, energy and money: through “Guide Santé”, patients will be informed about geographic location, visiting hours, services available, medical procedures and their prices and additional examinations. All this information will save our patients time, energy and money.Reducing mortality: With this application, we hope to minimise the time required to process and treat patients, the main factor responsible for deaths in our health facilities.Conference dates and news: In the application’s news section, we will publish information on the dates of various conferences and current events in the medical field.Literature review: We hope to improve the research work performed by healthcare providers through our partnership with Recomédical by providing them with a substantial database for their literature review.

The problem solved by the initiative is one often overlooked by healthcare providers: the free flow of information for swift treatment and reducing expenditures related to the search for examinations or specialised services in an entire city. At the same time, the initiative is educational and informative for both the public and health personnel (especially students), as it provides guidance on the conditions to be met before carrying out certain examinations, which will avoid diagnostic errors, save time and promote better care.

At present, there is no solution to the problems in Africa. Most of the applications that we have seen simply give the healthcare centres’ geographic location, much like a mobile directory, but no application provides useful information on: * consultation days and hours, visiting days and hours, physician availability for medical procedures, and prices,* instructions, tube types, conditions for pursuing supplemental and other examinations . * health insurance providers and affiliated hospitals * medicines available in the country, prices * conferences available in the country to help students stay up-to-date. * a literature review to help healthcare professionals find documentation for their theses and dissertations. Our solution therefore attempts to cover most of the problems encountered by the public and by healthcare personnel as concerns information in the field. This solution is both informative and educational, which is a distinct advantage.