Lab tests
Browse diagnostic services, see prices before you book, and receive the result in the app when it's ready.
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Everything Boogso does
No feature here is a promise about the future. This is what the app does when you open it.
Emergency
Request an ambulance with your location attached
The hardest part of an emergency call in a city without formal addressing is saying where you are. Boogso removes that step.
- One tap sends GPS coordinates. Your live position goes with the request, so the crew navigates to a point, not a description.
- Type it instead if you prefer. Location permission is optional; you can describe the pickup manually and still send the request.
- Details travel with you. Patient name, condition and contact number reach the responder before they arrive.
- Placed where you'll find it. The ambulance tile is red and top-of-screen on the home dashboard, on purpose.
2.0469° N, 45.3182° E
A coordinate pair, not "near the blue mosque, behind the petrol station".
Why location matters here
Most of Somalia has no formal street addressing. Emergency dispatch runs on landmarks, phone relays and local knowledge, and minutes disappear into it.
A coordinate pair sidesteps the whole conversation. It's the single highest-leverage thing a phone can contribute to an emergency.
Appointments
Book a slot instead of taking a number
Search by specialty and region, see who is available and when, and book the time that works.
- Browse by specialty. Cardiology, neurology, urology, nephrology, dental, optical, paediatrics and more.
- See the clinic first. Location, hours, consultation fee and reviews from other patients, before you commit.
- Confirmations and reminders. A notification when the clinic confirms, and another before the appointment.
- All of it in one list. Upcoming and past appointments in a single place, with receipts attached.
Find hospitals
Government and private facilities across the country, with what each one actually offers.
Find doctors
Filter by specialty and region. Profiles carry qualifications, clinic and fees.
Review afterwards
Rate the hospital and the visit, so the next patient chooses with better information.
Remote consultation
See a doctor without spending the day getting there
For a follow-up, a prescription review or a second opinion, the journey is often the most expensive part of the appointment. Book a remote slot instead.
- Book a time, same as any appointment. Doctors who offer remote consultations show their available slots and their fee up front.
- At the appointment time, Boogso opens the chat. One tap and WhatsApp opens on the doctor's number, with a message already written saying who you are and which booking this is.
- It runs in the app you already have. WhatsApp — not a video service you have to install, learn and pay data for.
- Voice if video won't hold. On a weak connection the doctor switches to a voice call. The consultation still happens.
- The notes still reach your record. Afterwards the doctor adds what was discussed and any prescription, under your Health ID.
15:00Your slot
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BoogsoReminds you
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WhatsAppOpens the chat
Boogso appointment — Amina Yusuf, Health ID BG-104882, today 15:00.
15:00 ✓✓
Why we don't run our own video
We could build video into Boogso. We've chosen not to, for now — because a purpose-built video service would be another app to install, more data to buy, and one more thing to fail on a 3G connection.
WhatsApp is already on the phone, already works on a weak signal, and the doctor already knows how to use it. Boogso's job is the part that's actually missing: finding the right doctor, holding the appointment, and making sure what was said ends up in your record.
It's light on the doctor too. They register one number when they join and never touch it again — no link to generate for every booking.
Medical records
One Health ID, and a history that stops resetting
Every patient gets a permanent Health ID. Records attach to it rather than to whichever clinic happened to create them.
- Prescriptions, diagnoses, discharge notes. Stored against your ID and readable on your phone.
- Lab results and scans. Delivered into the app by the lab, not handed over as paper.
- Works across providers. A specialist at a second hospital sees the first hospital's notes — if you grant it.
- Granted, never assumed. Access is per-provider, visible to you, and revocable at any time.
Health ID
BG-104882
Amina Yusuf
Born 14 March 1991 · Mogadishu
Born 14 March 1991 · Mogadishu
Scannable at a reception desk. Works with no signal.
The Health ID, plainly
It is a number. It is yours for life. It appears on your profile and you can read it out at a reception desk.
Its value is that it is the same number in every clinic, so nobody has to re-take your history from scratch and nobody has to guess which of four spellings of your name is you.
Kaaliye — the Boogso assistant
Someone to ask at two in the morning
Most health worry isn't an emergency. It's a number on a lab report you don't recognise, or a tablet you were handed without explanation. Kaaliye is there for that.
- Explains your results. What a value means, whether it's inside the usual range, and what it doesn't tell you.
- Explains your medicines. What a prescription is for and what to ask your doctor about it.
- Gets you to the right care. Tell it what's going on and it finds the right specialty, offers a slot, or hands you the ambulance button.
- Works in Somali and English. Both properly, not one translated from the other.
- Runs on our own servers. What you type to Kaaliye isn't sent to an outside AI company. It stays inside Boogso.
- Hands over to a person. Any time you want, and automatically when something needs a clinician.
My result says haemoglobin 10.2. Is that bad?
That's below the usual range for an adult woman, which often points to low iron. It isn't something I can diagnose — but it is worth a doctor seeing.
Book with Dr. Ahmed — today 15:00
What Kaaliye will not do
It will not tell you what's wrong with you. It doesn't diagnose, it doesn't decide whether you need to see someone, and it will never talk you out of getting care.
That's deliberate. An assistant that guesses at a diagnosis in a country where the nearest specialist may be a day's travel away can do real harm. So Kaaliye explains, and then it connects you to a human who can actually examine you.
And the rest
The parts that make it usable every week, not once a year
Scans and imaging
X-ray, ultrasound and other imaging kept alongside your records, viewable and shareable from your phone.
Health library
Plain-language articles on the conditions people actually search for, written in Somali and English.
Ask a professional
Send a health question and get an answer from a qualified professional, free of charge.
Somali and English
The app runs fully in either, and you can switch whenever you like — interface, health library and support. Not a translation layer bolted on afterwards.
Pay and keep the receipt
Settle consultation and test fees in-app where the provider supports it, with a receipt stored against the visit.
Being built
What's next, stated honestly
These are not shipped. They're what we're working on, listed so you can hold us to it.
Next major release
Describe what's wrong, in your own words
Kaaliye will let you say what you're feeling the way you'd say it to a relative — in Somali or English — and work out what kind of care that needs. Right specialty, right urgency, or straight to the ambulance button.
The model runs on Boogso's own servers. Health descriptions are the most sensitive thing you can type into a phone, and we don't think they should travel to a foreign AI company to be processed. Building our own inference costs more than calling someone's API. We think this is the right place to spend it.
It will still not diagnose you, and it will still hand you to a clinician when one is needed. That doesn't change.
iOS app
Android first because that's what the market runs on. iOS follows.
Family accounts
Manage appointments and records for children and elderly parents from one login.
Pharmacy and medicine
Find verified medicine nearby and check a prescription against what's in stock.
Live ambulance tracking
See the vehicle approaching, with an honest arrival estimate.
Offline records
Your own history readable without a connection, because connections fail exactly when they matter.
Diaspora payments
Let family abroad pay for a relative's consultation or test directly.
Video built into the app
Remote consultations currently run in WhatsApp. Bringing the call inside Boogso only makes sense once enough people are using it to justify the cost — so it waits.
Have it installed before the day you need it
Free to download, free to use, and the ambulance button doesn't ask you to register first.