As Covid-19 Pandemic spread throughout the globe, on 23 March 2020, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a new measure to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in South Africa, followed by a nationwide lockdown with severe restrictions on travel and movement to avoid an enormous catastrophe among the population.

As part of the Covid-19 strategy, more than 10,000 community healthcare workers were deployed across the country for door-to-door household screening. Mobile technology played a vital role in the enablement for the community health workers to conduct their screening to refer symptomatic people to clinics for testing while generating reporting that will contribute with meaningful statistics for better insight for the Health Authorities. Cosmo-ICT was part of the support in deploying mobile devices used by the Community Health Workers.

Team Size Serviced:

5300 Community Health Workers part of the Covid-19 screening.

Type of Job:

Sourcing of device, accessories, storage & distribution

Provisioning of mobile data, SMSs, voice services and APN

Project management and Support

Device deployed: Samsung A10S

Problem

Urgent deployment of mobile devices to districts across the country was required to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic that was sweeping the nation, posing life-threatening health conditions for many South Africans. High speed deployment was needed to get the mobile devices in the hands of various partners to enable community health workers to start with the screening tasks.

The Solution

Cosmo-ICT did a rapid enrolment and distribution of devices in collaboration with its partners and sub-contractors. It was in supporting the users, partners, and custom application developers with quick implementation, where Cosmo-ICT offers a large scale and instant provisioning and deployment solution.

Impact

We enabled our customers to successfully deploy mobile devices to Community Health Workers to conduct Covid-19 screenings during a high impact time in our country’s history.