Muso
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Muso developed a proactive health care system designed to save lives through a proactive search where Community Health Workers (CHWs) search for patients door-to-door, CHWs provide a package of life-saving health care services in the home, and Muso removes point-of-care fees, builds infrastructure, and trains staff, so that government clinics can provide universal, early access to care.
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https://www.musohealth.org/
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How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
To proactively guarantee ongoing care in our sites and ensure communities are taking the precautions possible, Muso has built out curricula for CHWs, dedicated CHW Supervisors, nurses, and physicians, in line with World Health Organization COVID-19 response recommendations. Muso has prioritized sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect health workers so that they may provide their routine proactive care visits, as well as COVID-19 education and screening, in safety. Muso is also reinforcing access to medical oxygen within our direct service sites and across Mali. Muso is currently working with our government partners to scale up an oxygen system to district hospitals across Mali. With our technical assistance, the MoH is rapidly assembling a proactive COVID-19 training program for the frontline health workers at multiple levels of the system. To begin, Muso’s Learning and Innovation team will train four Ministry of Health trainers at the national level, then 20 MoH trainers at the regional level. These actors will then go on to train 208 district hospital providers, who will train 1,164 primary care providers at the community health center level. Training will include virus screening, response, prevention, contact screening, and approaches for continuity of care in the midst of the outbreak response.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market ready product/service. I have sold to customers.
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Since our founding 15 years ago, Muso has built health systems driven by the conviction that no one should die waiting for health care. The global COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the danger of delayed access to testing, diagnosis, supplies, and treatment. For more than a decade, Muso has partnered with the Malian Ministry of Health (MoH) to jointly design and test community health strategies for universal, rapid access to care, namely the Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) model. ProCCM redefines the approach of a health system, holding care systems accountable for reaching patients proactively, within hours of when they become sick. This rapid care aims to improve survival, by getting care to patients before their illnesses can progress, and to stop the spread of infectious disease, by reaching patients early, before further transmission can happen. Muso has devoted the last 15 years to creating and researching strategies that cure delay. We must now mobilize these strategies to support our patients, our government partners, and the global effort. For more than ten years, Muso has collaborated with the Malian MoH to redesign and strengthen Mali’s health care system to move towards universal health coverage. We have mobilized to support the government in previous moments of crisis, including Mali’s Ebola outbreak in 2014. In 2019, we signed a new agreement with the MoH to serve as a technical assistance partner in support of the national health reform
What countries do you operate in?
Mali and Cote d'Ivoire
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No

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