Philosopher Oscar Wilde stated that there was something tragic behind every exquisite thing that exists.
His quote describes the story of Dr Levi Cheruo of Kenyatta University Hospital, a National Referral Hospital (KUTRRH), who was hailed as a medical Innovator.
Dr Levi lost his father, fiancée, and at least five close relatives in a tragedy that crashed his soul and almost derailed his social progress.
In 2015, Dr Levi lost his fiancée to a tumour that seriously damaged her facial composition, including her eye.
"I have encountered tragedies that have re-defined my medical perspective and public view of how public health should solve current challenges," Dr Levi noted.
"My fiancée died six months before our wedding, when we had planned everything and paid a dowry to her family," Levi added.
Sadly for Dr Levi's fiancée, her disease was largely ignored by the people around her until it was too late to help.
"She was only taken to the hospital after the tumor grew and damaged her eye. It was when the eye started bleeding that people realised the seriousness of the pain she was undergoing," Dr Levi explained.
According to Levi, his fiancée suffered from constant headaches for years and complained to his family.
"I'm now 35-year-old, and yet to get married because when I lost my fiancée, I lost so much emotionally. You can imagine starting another relationship, it has not been easy for me," Dr Levi noted.
The gentleman from Trans-Nzoia County also revealed that he lost his father through what would be termed as unnecessary ignorance.
However, in 2021, he pursued a new beginning and channelled his frustration into innovating technology that offers remote emergency medical care to patients.
Kenyatta University acknowledged Dr Levi's effort and granted him an office to facilitate his medical project.
Levi, who self-taught Computer Programming, is currently using technological applications to serve Kenyans who are seeking medical services.
"Dr Levi established that inadequate access to specialised medical care and lifesaving information is hugely to blame for the unnecessary loss of precious lives," KUTRRH acknowledged.
In response to patients' challenges, especially when needing accurate information and diagnosis, Dr Levi initiated digital media technology known as Doctors Explain.
"Doctors Explain FM is a Patient Education and Management System that is part of the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital's Medical Innovation and Accelerator Hub (MIAH)," noted KUTRRH.
Kenyatta University explained that Doctors Explain promotes quality of care through optimised access and efficient clinical workflow.
"It makes it possible for patients to access specialised medical care remotely," the hospital stated, adding that the Web Application is hosted on the browser where general and specialised doctors offer services.
"The Patient Education and Management System is meant to enhance our caregivers' work-life balance," read part of KUTRRH's statement.
Among the services offered on Doctors Explain include virtual medicare, through which qualified doctors provide telemedicine solutions that allow long-distance patient and clinician contact.
Doctors Explain also guarantees psychological care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring and remote admissions.
The system also provides virtual coaching and learning opportunities in which qualified doctors equip learners with relevant skills and patients to access drugs.
"People can purchase tools, equipment, instruments and many more. It also allows patients as well to directly order prescriptions from pharmacists and online drugstores," read part of the statement.
