South African Students Invented Application That Tell Patients When to Take Their Pills

Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is said to be the ability of microbe to resist the effect of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe. The medical experts attributed one of the causes of AMR in developing countries especially Africa to patience non compliance: a situation where patience either forget or deliberately do not take his pills needed to treat the microbe leading to bacteria being replicate and as such developing a sort of strong resistance.

To address this issue, two South Africa students of University of KwaZulu-Natal, Kapil Narain and Mohammed Hoosen Suleiman developed a mobile-phone based application made to ensuring that  patients take their pills regularly as recommended.

The application works by sending automated alert or a kind of reminder via text messages to patients to take their medication.

A statement from UKZN said there is no technological intervention that address poor patient compliance to Anti-Microbial till date.

The duo of Kapil Narain and Mohammed Hoosen Suleiman has presented their application to World Health Organisations (WHO)  and it was among the top ten finalist in a world competition where the work is being showcasing. The competition which  aims to looking for solution to Anti-Microbial Resistance has a total of 163 proposal submitted from about 40 countries of the world.

The competition is organised by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in association with International Federation of Medical Students (IFMS) and with support of World Health Organisations (WHO).

The application come with features which could be adjusted to suite the specific need of  each patient.

The two medical science students were in General Switzerland during the World Antibiotics Awareness week where they presented their final proposal at a capacity building workshop.

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