FAPDA : First Aid Pharmaceutical Digital Assistant

This paper presents a first aid drug prescription software deployed for small mobile devices. The system provides a cost-efficient, multilingual, easily accessible mobile solution. A key limitation of the existing systems of drug prescription is that they do not address challenges such as inaccessibility of patients to medical Doctors or trained paramedics, digital divide, cost constraints among other challenges peculiar to rural African communities. This paper presents one of the solutions developed in our research efforts at addressing the aforementioned. The work produced a novel mobile software tool that addressed the provisioning of realtime, standardized drug prescription solution for patients in communities where access to Doctor is near zero with Multilanguage interface. Yoruba language, one of the three most widely spoken languages in Nigeria was used in the preliminary implementation of this system.