The AISHA team spent most of the weekend in the office, focusing on wrapping up and cleaning our databases. We also finalized decisions about where to deploy our devices, ensuring everything is set for the busy week ahead.

Today (August 19th), our team divided up once again, with Simone, Maaz, and Natalie heading to St. John of God’s Hospital in Lunsar for a meeting with Brother Michael. The goal was to discuss his vision for implementing e-learning at the hospital and to introduce our project. We were eager to showcase what we’ve been working on, but unfortunately, the hospital’s Wi-Fi connectivity was unreliable, preventing us from delivering a proper demonstration. Despite our efforts, the technical issues made it difficult to convey the full potential of our project. As a result, the meeting didn’t go as smoothly as we had anticipated, leaving us feeling that we didn’t quite hit the mark.

With hopes still high, Simone, Maaz, and Natalie headed to Makeni Regional Hospital to visit the SRH and Male Medical Unit, aiming to identify our champion there. Unfortunately, our contact at the SRH Unit wouldn’t be available until the week after our departure, so we decided to move on. After a brief wait, we met with the head doctor of the Male Medical Unit and introduced him to our device. He showed great interest and desired to use it in his training sessions with the nurses. We’ve scheduled an official demo for Wednesday to determine if this product fits his needs.

Vrushti, Juliana, and Gaby went to Branda, a private hospital with two main goals: 1. to assign someone to be our main contact and “champion” of our device to handle any technical difficulties and questions while we are back at Lehigh 2. to find a place in their facility that will have power, internet, and high traffic so that our device can be used to its maximum potential. This was extremely successful, and the device was left in a medical record / IT room that is directly across from where their wifi router stays. We were able to demonstrate AISHA Answers and AISHA Quizzes to a community healthcare worker, two nurses, and an IT supervisor. They all were optimistic about our devices and expressed an innumerable interest in having our devices in their facility.