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femi-cloud/MedVoice-Africa

Domain:

healthcarenatural language processing

Record type:

software
Creator:
fem
Host:
An offline-first, multimodal medical assistant powered by Gemma 4, designed to bridge the healthcare gap in rural areas via edge-AI. # 🩺 MedVoice Africa > **An offline-first, multimodal AI medical assistant powered by Gemma 4, built to bridge the deadly gap between symptom onset and professional care in rural Africa.** Features · Architecture · Setup --- ## 🌍 The Problem In rural Sub-Saharan Africa, a **"Medical Desert"** creates a fatal gap: - **1 doctor per 10,000+ people** in remote areas of Benin - **No connectivity** — 3G/4G coverage drops to near zero outside urban centers - **Community health workers** act as the first — and often only — line of defense, with minimal training and no decision-support tools - **Language barrier** — French-only medical tools exclude the majority of rural populations who speak Fon or other local languages The result: preventable deaths from treatable conditions like malaria, diarrhea, and fever — simply because the right protocol was unavailable at the right moment. --- ## 💡 The Solution **MedVoice Africa** is an edge-AI agent that runs entirely on a mid-range Android phone, **with or without internet**. It puts a trained medical reasoning engine in the hands of every person within the West African community and every community health worker, anywhere. ``` No WiFi. No server. No problem. > ⚠️ **Demo note:** The LLM offline module requires 3GB+ free RAM. > In this demo build, Gemma 4 via Gemini API is used for natural language generation. > All medical logic (triage, dosage, WHO protocols) runs fully offline. ``` ### What it does | Module | Description | |---|---| | 🔴 **Smart Triage** | Automatically classifies symptoms as ROUGE / JAUNE / VERT using WHO protocols | | 💊 **Dosage Calculator** | Computes weight-based pediatric & adult dosages from 100+ local drug protocols | | ⚠️ **Pharmacy Guard** | Scans medicine boxes via camera (OCR + barcode) and detects dangerous drug interactions | | 🌿 **Offline RAG** | Retrieves WHO emergency protocols locally — no internet required | | 🗣️ **Multilingual Voice** | Understands and responds in **Fren …