CH may use students’ app for medical program
Five college students developed an application that will help improve Cebu City’s Long Life Medical Assistance Program (LLAMP).
Introduced in 2016, the LLAMP provides maintenance medicines daily to around 52,000 indigent residents of the city.
With a huge number of beneficiaries, students of Cebu Institute of Technology-University (CIT-U) saw the need to develop a platform that can efficiently monitor and improve the program.
Aeon is aimed at digitizing the LLAMP records. It also uses global positioning system (GPS) to verify and track deliveries made by volunteers tasked to take the medicines at the doorstep of the beneficiaries.
Aside from this, it has a predictive stock ordering capability to ensure that there is enough supply of medicines.
The platform can also be used to gather health data for beneficiaries to evaluate potential health risks.
Aeon is one of the five finalists from Cebu that made it to Accenture’s Tech4Good finals in Manila this Wednesday.
The competition provides students the opportunity to learn about new technologies that can help solve social problems.
Mayor Tomas Osmeña welcomed the development and said that he is open to working with the students “because in Long Life, there are a lot of gaps that I tolerate just so it moves fast.”
Osmeña said that because of the large number of beneficiaries, the LLAMP does not require registration as collating more than 50,000 files might slow down the program.
“We’re very worried, but if it’s a tolerable level, okay lang na. But in the meantime, kada-adlaw naa gyuy daghang makadawat sa ilang tambal. We’re willing to work with the students. It’s a different culture altogether and I welcome that. As a matter of fact, if they do a good job, I will hire them,” he added.