Nurse in Hand Emergency Response is a social enterprise providing Road accidents emergency response (post-crash care) to Kenyans. Through our platform, RED.ER, an integrated web and mobile technology that improves emergency response services by reducing response time and intelligently coordinate emergency alerts to all key service providers. The system has been benchmarked on working models in developed economies (UK ER and 108 India), RED.ER routes distress alerts from the public and crash-alert devices to deploy and coordinate emergency response services within a geofenced area.

Nurse in Hand Emergency Response seriously considers advantages emerging technologies present, and this platform is designed to assimilate with emerging technologies (Blockchain, AI and IOTs) to provide effective and efficient service delivery. Through cognitive content filtering of social media Keywords and hashtags the system is able to use Artificial Intelligence to classify and intelligently give an analytic response on general emergency situations, road accident alerts and relevant emergency information processed for system analysis and research, our crash alert sensor utilize IOT to automate road emergency information relay by providing real time crush information of vehicles involved without human interface, this crash-alert devices are to be installed in motor vehicles. Our platform is a viable option to advance coordination and resource mobilization of emergency response service provision.

Nurse in Hand is working in close partnership with The Kenya Police, National Transport and Safety Authority, Kenya Vision 2030, Ministry of Health, Emergency response service providers, Public service vehicles Industry through their apex management associations (Matatu Owners Association & Matatu Welfare Association), Motorcycle transport Industry through their National management association (Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya - BAK), and other stakeholders.
 
According to NTSA (Road Safety Report 2015), In Kenya, the economic cost of road crashes has been reported to be 5.6% of the GDP~300 billion Kenya shillings annually and presents a disproportionately high heath burden on Kenyans due to lack of improved emergency management services. Nurse In Hand is providing a contemporary solution to one of Kenya’s most challenging health and safety priorities.

According to World Health Organization and United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund (UNRSTF) statistics, 1.25 million people die in road accidents worldwide annually, up to 50 million more end up with injuries that leads to long term suffering, and about 2.67% of this number succumbs to death monthly due to lack of fast and immediate care. Road traffic deaths and injuries cause significant economic losses to individuals and societies, keeping millions of people in poverty and creating an estimated $1.85 trillion burden on the global economy each year. This makes addressing road safety one of the most pressing social, economic, health and development challenges of our time.
While the need to improve road safety is gaining increasing recognition, targeted efforts have not been adequately funded at the local, national, regional or global levels. As such, we are far from being on track to halve the number of road traffic deaths by 2020– the target set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The World Bank suggests the factors important for effective post-crash care are:
•   Efficient emergency notification
•   Fast transport of qualified medical personnel
•   Correct diagnosis at the scene
•   Stabilization and prompt transport of the patient to point of treatment
•   Quality emergency room and trauma care services

Our mission is to significantly contribute to reduction of current statistics of road accident deaths in Kenya and the world at large.