AgrAbility for Africa

Qode Health Solutions/PQF Group Services enables healthcare organizations to explore uncharted assessment and visual analytics, and it is under its operations and infrastructure that the company provides support towards integrated care systems by engaging patients in their own care, delivering continuous provider monitoring, identifying early symptoms, and enabling prompt response. To learn more about its technology implementation and use, the AgrAbility for Africa team joined the company in March 2021 to learn more about their distance care support system. This gives the team more knowledge in ways to overcome barriers to health services caused by distance between patients and providers. It also provided a practical means to address the spread of COVID-19 by minimizing client contact while expanding care outreach.

It is through such educational opportunities, that AgrAbility for Africa continuously explores ways to enhance client engagement, care support options, and benefits for medical and behavioral care. This increases its impact by expanding vocational rehabilitation health care access via cost savings strategies and convenience to those in rural farming communities who lack access to health services and information in Uganda and other parts of Africa.

Kenya has recently increased restrictions and heightened inspection of Uganda- and Tanzania-produced grain due to high levels of mycotoxins in grain produced by those two countries. In a related incident, the European Union threatened to ban fresh exports to the Union due to traces of banned pesticides in agriculture products produced in the East Africa region, such as endosulfan that is used by farmers to fight pests, and fungicides to preserve tomatoes.

In response to this ever-increasing problem that has led to loss of markets, the AgrAbility for Africa team is working on a collaboration with Enjojo Wildlife Foundation to promote regenerative agriculture in the western region of the country. The joint effort is aimed at discouraging the buying and application of the dangerous chemicals (banned in both the USA and EU) through education and awareness, and to prevent the use of harmful pesticides that have caused harm to farmers, farm workers, final consumers, and wild game living close to farming communities around Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Submitted by Mutumba Faisal