Plus Ultra Care Bot

Inspiration

“A lacking supply of ICU beds is leading to preventable deaths"- this one line is our main inspiration in making this. No matter what happens, we cannot become habituated to this new normal. People who can be saved are dying every day due to Covid-19, even some are taking their lives not being able to cope up with isolation which resulted in various crimes both inside our houses and outside. Thus we were inspired to make our bot to help people in this dire situation.

What it does

Plus Ultra Care is here to aid people in this pandemic. Let our chat bot find you vacant ICU beds in your vicinity and also give information of Covid-19 test centers in your area. Hehe you thought that’s it? Plus Ultra Care is much more. Anxiety is up, depression is up, domestic violence has escalated. So our chat bot is also here to virtually pat your back and give you the support you need in this scary time.

HOSPITALS/ CORONA TEST CENTERS Patients who become critically ill from COVID-19 require weeks of treatment in intensive care units, and many are intubated and ventilated to have even a chance of survival. However, due to the rise of the affected number, there is great shortage of ICU beds. The solution to the problem is not simple. Not only we need more ICU facilities in hospitals but also a great number of health workers with ventilators are critical equipment to keep patients alive and maintain hope for survival. So what this bot will do is, if a user ask to know vacant hospitals that take corona patients, the bot will give him/her a list of the hospitals. This would be done for non covid-19 patients who need to visit hospitals. Since all the hospitals do not accommodate covid positive patients and also some patients do not like to visit hospitals that take covid positive patients. The given hospital list will be updated every six hours. Also if a user wants to know about the covid test centers in his/her vicinity, then our bot can also give the list with contact details.

MOTIVATION/HELPLINE Domestic violence has increased during lockdown as many people are trapped at home with their abuser. If someone thinks their life or their loved ones' lives are at stake or they need counselling, let our bot know and it will direct them to national helplines. This helplines will provide mental and legal help to any victim reaching out. If we look at the news, at social media, or even out of the window at times, it’s clear that a lot of people are struggling with the whole ‘social isolation’ thing. It is so important to make a conscious effort to stay healthy and positive. So our bot can give a few advices to keep you motivated when you are feeling down.

How I built it

We are both technologically backward weebs but we tried hard to learn to work with Chatfuel and this bot is our end product.

Challenges I ran into

We had to pull an all-nighter because we got to know about this hackathon pretty late. Also coming up with a solution to a real time problem was also challenging.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

IT IS WORKING! We are proud that we could be productive in this quarantine and got to do something useful.

What I learned

This is our first time taking part in a hackathon where we learnt how to make a chat bot which will be helpful for the general people. Glad that we learned a new skill and got ourselves enlightened with this new world called hackathon. Looking forward to taking part in more of these competitions.

What's next for Plus Ultra Care Bot

We hope that our government takes initiative to execute this Plus Ultra Care Bot. Bangladesh is a small country with a very large population and we are still not close to bringing covid-19 outbreak under control. So we hope that our government will take initiative to implement this bot. This bot will be very helpful to minimize the hassle of the patients who have to move from one hospital to another for their treatments. Bangladesh being a country with a huge population, most of the people are ignorant about the mental health issues which have escalated during this lockdown. Here we have shown an example how a bot can try to lift one's mood up. We want to feed more data into it by suggesting books, playlists etc. Because, we never know, one word from a bot might brighten one's life.

Built With

• chatfuel
• gossip
• procrastination