Kofi-eo/CareFinder

Centralized Medical Appointment System for users based in Nigeria, where they can book appointments with specialists Physicians in Hospitals Closest to them. # CareFinder #### Live At: care-finder.vercel.app CareFinder is a Centralized Medical Appointment System for users based in Nigeria, focused on enabling users book appointments with specialists Physicians in Hospitals Closest to them with ease. ## Inspiration This Project was built for a Hackathon. It was built to help users easily locate and book appointments with hospitals/Pharmacies. ## What it does CareFinder helps connect users with specialist in hospitals or pharmacies closet to them. It allows users to be able to book appointments with specialists either In Person or Video call appointments. For In Person Appointments, users are able to download or print out their apppointment slip which can then be presented at the hospital/Pharmacy of their choosing. For Video Call Appointments, A video call meeting will be created for the user and specialist, and the link will be sent to both parties ## How it was built For the Frontend We made use of NextJS, Javascript and CSS. The app also has some backend functionalities. For that we made use of Firebase to setup User Authentication and also store some user data. The Front End was deployed on Vercel. ## Challenges We Ran Into One issue we faced was working with the google maps API. Since one on our team had worked with it before and the documentations were not really straight forward, we had to conduct an extensive reasearch on the task, but we finally decided to go with the `@react-google-maps/api` package to integrate google maps functionality to out application. ## Accomplishments we're proud of We are proud that we were able to make use of tools that we haven't used before and come together to accomplish what we set for in a relatively short period of time. ## What We learned We Leart many new technologies and skills like how to structure projects in a better way and how to effectively work in a team. We also strengthend our expertise on some of our existing skills like integrating Firebase to a web …