Coronavirus: Ogun state government deploys mobile App for residents’ personal self-assessment

The Ogun State Government has rolled out a mobile application for members of the public to self-assess themselves on individual basis for the dreaded Coronavirus.

Penpushing reports that, the State Government had in March launched a real time concurrently updated mobile application for health workers which has been deployed to all government and private health facilities across its 20 local government areas to aid information sharing.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, in a statement said the new application, christened, “Ogun COVID-19 Assessment” is not for diagnostic purpose but it is meant to determine the risk of resident’s exposure to the disease.

Penpushing further reports that, Coker noted that the application is downloadable on Google play store and can also be assessed on https://covid19.ogunhip.com/ and https://covid19.ogunstate.gov.ng/ explaining  that responses are monitored on a dashboard at the  Ministry of Health which will flag high risk individuals as red who are promptly followed up by the State Epidemiologist.

“This Mobile Application is an assessment tool for the individual members of the public on the basic symptoms of Coronavirus. It can be downloaded on Google play store. The App is not for diagnostic purpose’, she explained.

“Responses are monitored  on a dashboard at the Ministry of Health which will flag high risk individuals as red who are promptly followed up by the State Epidemiologist,” the Commissioner said, and urged  members of the public to take advantage of the mobile application.