DokitaEyes, launched in 2015, now has 45,000 users and over 230 partner health facilities. It began as a service helping elderly people, pregnant women and people with disabilities move easily through hospitals.
The platform later added digital health records to solve the problem of missing or scattered patient information. Users can book help, send prescriptions, pay with Mobile Money and receive test results directly in the app. A rural project using the app monitored 15,000 pregnant women and 70,000 children, with no maternal deaths recorded. DokitaEyes works both online and offline, making it useful in areas with weak network coverage.
Some services are free, while digital health cards and facilitator appointments come at a small cost. The startup is expanding to Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Benin, but still faces slow adoption from healthcare workers.
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