Malnutrition Digital Assistant (MDA) Project

Description

Summary

The proposed Malnutrition Digital Assistant (MDA) application is an innovation that will respond to the need for easy, quick, accurate and improved screening, diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition and also increase awareness about malnutrition causes and the possible remedies among the public.

With the development of the MDA app, nutrition health workers will have to spend a minimal amount of time carrying out diagnosis of malnutrition cases and be able to provide the possible remedies in the shortest time possible than they take at the moment. Since the time required would have greatly reduced, this will go a long way in cancelling out the effect of the big doctor to patient ratio since medical personnel would be able to handle a number of cases and provide the possible remedies in the shortest time possible.  The app will as well help parents and caretakers to have easy access to vast of information about malnutrition causes, effects and remedies at their fingertips. MDA will hugely positively impact early, easy and accurate identification of children suffering from malnutrition thereby reducing the treatment time, mortality rate, government costs and also increase awareness in a most cost-effective manner.