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Olumide: A self-hosted AI nurse for chronic disease, living in WhatsApp

DEV Community·Salim Ọlánrewájú Oyinlọlá·7 months ago
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This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge .

What I Built

It's a Tuesday morning in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Chief Bamidele Adeyemi is 62, retired, hypertensive, and type-2 diabetic. He's on amlodipine, metformin, and empagliflozin. He sees Dr. Chuks every three months for about four minutes. The other 3 months minus 4 minutes, he is on his own.

By 3pm he has eaten only tea and a biscuit since breakfast. He WhatsApps his AI: "I'm feeling small dizzy and shaky." Twenty seconds later, four things happen at once:

His chat replies with the mild-hypoglycemia protocol, "3 to 4 glucose tablets, half a glass of orange juice, or 3 biscuits, now. I'll wait. We'll re-test in 15."

The bedside Arduino on his nightstand goes solid red. The buzzer plays the alert pattern. The LCD reads LOW SUGAR / TAKE SUGAR NOW .

His daughter Funmi, a nurse in Manchester, gets a calm Telegram message: "FYI, your dad had a mild hypo (glucose 68, recovered). Second this month. I've drafted a note for Dr. Chuks.…

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