From the classrooms of the Islamic University of Gaza its medical laboratories and the Gaza Strip hospitals the Teb Fact medical team seeks to serve the patients of the besieged Gaza Strip who has been under siege for 12 years as well as Arab patients.
The PIC narrates the success story of this project which is made of a team of students who represented Palestine at the international Hult Prize competition after competing with more than 30 Palestinian projects.
An electronic platform
The idea of the project began with the launch of an electronic platform called www.tebfact.com which provides medical advice and information by medical guides to the Arab public.
Mohammed Ghoneim the project’s executive director and a student at the Islamic University of Gaza Medical School said that some 40 doctors from the Gaza Strip and Arab countries are providing advice to Arab patients through their electronic platform.
The doctors and medical students do research using many medical references approved globally then write and publish medical articles to the Arab public in a scientific manner that is easy to understand providing Arab readers with the best and most accurate medical information on the internet. This is the first phase of this project according to Ghoneim.
The idea of the project expanded with the intensification of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and the inability of many patients to access treatment outside the coastal enclave due to the difficult medical and economic conditions.
The idea of developing the project also stemmed from the suffering of patients who wait a lot to travel outside Gaza carrying with them many medical documents and various tests to be presented to doctors abroad.
“In the second phase of our project we are moving the site from an awareness site to a medical platform that specializes in providing online medical consultations to patients in the Gaza Strip as well as to Arab patients” says Ghoneim.
Different specialties
On this platform doctors from different specialties are available around the clock to provide medical advice in return for a small monthly subscription.
The medical team is trying to educate patients about the misuse of alternative and local medicine and to guide them to right use of a treatment.
Project owners expect the start of the second phase and its entry into force in early June 2019.
The project’s second phase is characterized by focusing on patients’ ability to communicate with doctors and getting needed medical follow-up and reminding patients of the necessary times and dates of taking medicines around the clock.
Ghoneim is accompanied by his fellow classmates Ahmed Darwish and Abdel Rahman Ahmed.
The Hult Prize competition concluded the stages of selecting the winning team by choosing the representative of the Islamic University of Gaza in international forums following a competition between seven pioneering student projects from the Gaza Strip by reaching the final stage one month following the announcement of the competition.
The Hult Prize is a student competition that is open to undergraduate master and doctoral students from around the world aimed at creating new social projects designed to address a chronic social challenge.
The winner of the final global competition will receive $1 million in capital to start the project along with providing an ecosystem by mentors governors and entrepreneurs through the Hult Award and the Clinton Global Initiative.
