South Asian people develop type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease at significantly lower BMI and waist thresholds than European populations — yet the NHS screens everyone against the same European-derived cutoffs. A South Asian woman at 82 cm waist circumference is told she's "normal," despite clinical evidence showing she's already at elevated risk.
WHO published ethnicity-adjusted thresholds years ago. The problem isn't the science — it's that nobody built the tool. Community health workers in South Asian communities don't have a fast, culturally appropriate way to screen patients, explain ethnicity-specific risk, and hand them something actionable to take to their GP.
Tahqeeq (تحقیق — Urdu for "investigation") closes that gap.
Tahqeeq guides a community health worker through a five-step screening:
Patient intake — age, sex, height, weight, waist and hip measurements. Under 60 seconds. Body scan capture — four guided camera photos (front, back, left, right) that build patient trust in the process. Secure processing — VAI score calculated using actual BMI and South Asian-specific thresholds. All photos deleted immediately with a logged audit trail. Risk results — colour-coded risk card showing the patient's measurements against both South Asian and European thresholds side-by-side. When standard screening would have missed the risk, the app says: "Standard NHS screening would have called this normal. We flagged it." A detailed action plan follows — exact GP phrasing, which blood tests to request, South Asian dietary guidance with NHS links, and care access links. Bilingual PDF — one page in Urdu (proper Naskh script, not transliteration), one page in English. The patient takes it home. No smartphone needed. The entire UI supports English/Urdu switching with full RTL layout.
Built With
- arabic-reshaper
- css-frameworks:-react
- fastapi
- html
- javascript
- languages:-python
- lucide-react
- pillow-platforms:-node.js
- python-bidi
- vite-libraries:-reportlab
