COVID19 Help - Find a doctor

This app connects volunteer doctors to covid-19 patients who are home quarantined. doctors should try to check on patients daily and provide some medical advice and guidelines.

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Inspiration

Many of us prefer not to visit crowded hospitals to verify whether or not they are infected with covid-19, so they prefer to stay home and self isolate, but the problem with this is it might be hard to find a doctor to help you remotely during your isolation. My uncle have recently passed away by COVID-19, he was self isolated in his home, everything was ok until his last hours we started looking and calling around for doctors to help, when we found one it was already too late.

What it does

This is a messenger chat app, its purpose is connecting doctors to patients who need help. Volunteer doctors gets assigned to a few patients (10 max) who need help or advice, and doctors should try and check on their patients everyday and provide medical advice and guidance.

How I built it

Using the package messenger-bot which uses the facebook messenger API, backend is using express.js on node.js

Challenges I ran into

Messenger API only allows sending messages to people in a 24 hour window after the last reply from the user, so, i plan to add a feature to notify users that they need to type something to keep the chat alive, this notification should appear before the 24 hour window.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Finishing the project in under 24 hours :D

What I learned

You can use messenger bots for anything really, even connecting different people in the same chat window.

What's next for COVID19 Help - Find a doctor

Win this hackathon maybe? :D

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