Pakistan is challenged by a national crisis and a calamity in form of Corona Virus Crisis. The Pakistan Red Crescent Society on the orders of the President of Pakistan has started its Corona Crisis Response on the Pakistan Day of 23rd March, 2020.
The PRC response to the Corona Crisis is in support of the Federal and Provincial Governments, the NDMA, and Pakistan Armed Forces initiatives already in place for the same cause. PRC plans to maintain an active and a dynamic liaison to ensure transparency and sharing of its initiative with fellow responders.
Please find link to a more detailed document on the different PRC programs. We are summarizing the initiatives that will have data available for analysis.
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PRC Muhafiz App
Mobile App Used by trained Volunteers to collect symptom data from the community. App Prototype
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PRC Emergency Management Platform
Mobile App used by Doctors and Intake Staff at PRC Emergency Facilities to Triage patients. This is combined with web dashboard used by Facility Coordinators to provide realtime intake data to the Ops Center
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PRC OPS Room
Ops Room will become a nerve centre for flow of all information received from community, our volunteers reaching out to the community through home visits, referrals to our helpline, cases screened and treated at our Corona Care Hospital, and referral / transfer of cases to hospitals linked with us. The data so collected will be shared with Ministry of Health, and NDMA to support their operations.
To acheive the PRC goal of collecting information from the field and allocating resources based on a data based approach we require teams solving the following problems.
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Agent Analytics (Care for the Carer)
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Report Generation (Dashboard UI + Metrics)
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Data Engineering