SumudCare

SumudCare — Offline AI triage and medical records for crisis zones. No internet. No infrastructure. No barriers.

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MOBILE APP, MUST HAVE EXPO GO TO RUN

Inspiration

We built this telemedicine app after seeing how war and displacement leave patients without access to their medical histories, making care uncertain. In Gaza right now, doctors are treating hundreds of patients a day with unreliable internet, often resorting to sending records over WhatsApp and paper notes, while much of the healthcare infrastructure has been destroyed. Our own families’ experiences with migration reinforced how easily continuity is lost. By preserving records offline, SumudCare is designed to be as reliable as possible so care remains accessible in any condition, guided by the belief, “Whoever saves one life, it is as if they have saved all of humanity” (5:32).

What it does

SumudCare lets doctors create structured patient records offline, classify triage severity with an NLP in under 2 seconds, transfer full records phone-to-phone via QR with zero internet, dictate notes hands-free by voice, and communicate across the language barrier with a full Arabic/English UI and live AI translation.

How we built it

Replit, React Native + Expo GO, Node.js + Express, PostgreSQL, Groq API with Llama 3.3 70B for triage and translation, Gemini API for voice dictation, TypeScript throughout.

Challenges we ran into

Building a meaningful project isn't just expert coding and masterful git management. You have to understand and empathize with the people who use your tech. It doesn't matter if you build the most efficient, state-of the art medical system if its inaccessible to everyone who needs it. We hit Gemini's rate limits mid-build; iOS blocked our BLE plans, we ran out of Replit credits at 2am; honestly alot happened, but it was fun. ps

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built something we want to continue based off of pure passion and care. This is genuinely just the start. We genuinely, believe this tech can help so many people. Being able to locally store a database that will persist even thought-out powerhouses that could potentially save lives

What we learned

Offline-first is harder than it sounds. iOS is more restrictive than we expected. Simple things we take for granted, like being able to text each other funny memes at 3am, are luxuries that don't exist everywhere. And sometimes the most meaningful thing you can build is the simplest one, a record that doesn't get lost.

What's next for SumudCare

LoRa mesh networking for clinic-to-clinic range. BLE mesh for true offline relay. What all this means is that we want to create a true persistent network of medical expertise (records, information, access to doctors) without the need to rely on things like satellites or WIFI. We hope to partner with non-profits like UNWAR and Doctors without boarders to help get this app into the hands of people who need it. We also hope to expand to more countries like Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, and more!

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