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The world is going through an unprecedented change. Healthcare challenges are affecting the way we act, interact and run our businesses. To take these challenges head-on, The National Incuba-tion Center TeamUp and Jazz xlr8 in partnership with the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (M/o NHSR&C), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America (Open), Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), National Incubation Center Karachi (NIC Karachi), TVOne Pakistan and Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe (APPNE), organized a solution based all-online National Health Hackathon.

This Hackathon gave people the opportunity to collaborate and develop modern solutions to control the spread of communicable diseases like COVID-19.

The purpose of the Hackathon was to find preventive and curative solutions for communicable diseases. Applicants were required to apply in one or more of the following categories:

SECTION 1ABOUT THE

NATIONAL HEALTH HACKATHON

Access to Authentic Information (Fighting Fake News)

The general public, including people living in rural as well as urban areas are unable to access authentic information at this crucial time. Communicable diseases and their effects can be curbed with authentic information on how it impacts health to control the spread of the disease and prevent panic.Access to Hygiene and Disinfectant Products

Soaps, Hand sanitizers, Disinfectant sprays, with focus on low-cost local mass production.

Creating Hygienic Conditions in Cities and Homes

Low-Cost methods for disinfecting Roads, Homes, Hospitals, Workplaces and Public Places.

Digital Tools for Tracking Pandemic Progression

Making new tools e.g. Data Modeling, dashboards, Algorithms, Apps to help hospitals, poli-cymakers, and the general public better understand and prepare for the COVID19 response.

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Solutions for Safe & Comfortable Lifestyle in Self-Quarantine

Solutions to provide safe and comfortable quarantine for people in isolation, including include safe delivery of house-hold items, digital payments, counselling services online, other online services for recreation, health and balance.


Protective Gear for Curbing the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Availability of protective clothing for the public, healthcare and other professionals & devices for curbing the spread of communicable diseases. Dealing with Patient Load/ Testing For COVID-19 Patients

To decrease the patient load at health care facilities via Tele-medicine, Triaging Patients by Symptom App, Home tests and checkups for other non-COVID-19 patients, etc.

Critical Care Management For COVID-19 Patients

Low-Cost local manufacturing of ventilators and any other hardware Devices to Assist People with Breathing Difficulty

Fast Track Contact Tracing Of COVID-19 Patients And Community Clusters/Hot Spots

Identification of the extent to which a positive and suspected COVID-19 patient may have infected the community. (Using Big Data, AI/ML etc.)

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Research for Vaccines/ Medicines

Vaccines, medicines and any other cures for COVID19 and other communicable diseases.

Well-Being of Frontline Workers and Healthcare Providers

Helping with the mental and physical health of Front-line workers (paramedics, doctors, nurses, Pharmacists, Community Health Workers, law enforcement agencies, banks), pa-tients tested positive, and families of patients tested positive.

Virtual Education

Study at home tools for kids, university going students and general public.Supply Chain (Food and Other Daily Use Items)

Broken supply chain caused by just in time supply that leads to problems in fulfilling a huge unprecedented demand due to an outbreak. The general public, including people living in rural as well as urban areas are unable to access food at this crucial time. The dis-ruption of food and other daily use items supply chain in the lock down scenario increases panic and may result in inflation in the society.Access to Water and Sanitation Facilities

Solutions to make water and sanitation accessible for all, including people in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.

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Facilitating Remote Workers

Support to manage increase in work intensity and stress during the work from home set-ting via online productivity tools, fitness classes, recreational classes, free subscription of tele-conference apps, etc.


We received 1205 Applications in a period of 2 weeks, for which applications were open. 123 applications were shortlisted for interviews. 25 participants/group of participants were selected for the final round. These finalists received a four-day virtual mentoring session, from mentors assigned according to the needs identified by the participants. After the final round, top 3 contes-tants were selected as winners of the Hackathon. Some facts about the applications received are presented below

SECTION 2.1 : DETAILS OF APPLICATIONS Geographic Dispersion of Applicants

SECTION 2 DETAILS OF THE

NATIONAL HEALTH HACKATHON

Pakistani Applicants

Global Applicants


Diseases Addressed by Applicants

COVID-19 Dengue

Hepatitis

Tuberculosis

MalariaPneumonia

Nature of Applications Received• Preventive Category - 401 Applications• Curative Category - 208 Applications• Other Category – 117 Applications• Preventive & Curative Categories – 426 Applications• Preventive & Other Categories– 25 Applications• Curative & Other Categories – 3 Applications• Preventive, Curative & Other Categories- 25 Applications

Verticals and Industries targeted by Applicants

ArtificialIntelligence/

Machine Learning

Blockchain

Ed-Tech

Manufacturing Medical equipment

and accessories

Health-Tech

Research and Medicine

Supply Chain

Health and Nutrition

E-Commerce

Geo-tracking Patients


SECTION 2.2: DETAILS OF FINALISTS Details of the finalists and the Ideas presented are provided below:

• Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat- Using Deep Learning to diagnose COVID-19 Patients, by collect-ing audio cough samples on the cloud.

• Urooj Zia-Manufacturing reusable and easy-to-wear FFP3 and N95 masks from locally-pro-duced materials, providing protection against the Novel Coronavirus as well as regular pollut-ants.

• Syed Wajahat- Developing an Ed-tech platform, specifically for Intermediate Students of Sindh and Punjab, which is scalable to cater to the masses

• Dilawar Khan- An AI based Corona Detection Application, detecting disease through coughing pattern. The system also focuses on mass assessment and user tracking to predict next cluster of COVID-19 positive patients

• Dr. Maaz Aslam/ Saad Rehman- Developing and distributing PPE kits for frontline workers across hospitals in the country.

• Muhammad Fahad Mehmood-Developing a Low Cost Non-Invasive Ventilator Solution• Adeel Hassan- A home-delivery system, delivering groceries and essential to customer’s door-

step, eliminating the need to step out during the COVID-19 lockdown• Shoaib Aqmal- An end-to-end Cloud based COVID-19 Rapid response platform, that uses a

Mobile App to identify people who are at high risk of Covid-19 infection and enables doctors to do remote treatment, corona testing and monitoring of COVID19 patients who are in home isolation or quarantine centers.

• Shakir Mahmood- Developing an AI based Automated Corona Diagnosis using X-rays., and Camera based Automated PPE compliance & Facial Thermal Scans

• Abu Abdullah Ashar/Mamoon Babar- Test&Trace (T&T) is a COVID-19 containment solution for Pakistan by Synfox Global to enable safer mobility to citizens, contact detection with potential COVID-19 carriers, access to authentic information, and self-testing for everyone

• Omar Chaudhry- A questionnaire-based platform to detect possible COVID-positive patients• Zain Warsi/Muhammad Aaquib Shahbaz- A portable, low-cost and scalable Electronic Air-Pu-

rifier (AP) suitable for environment control of a typical-sized (25-meter square) confined room in an office or at home, or a car cabin.

• Kinza Naeem-A 24/7 mental health helpline along with referral in place, to address the ev-er-increasing mental health issues that are bound to proliferate threefold amid, and post COVID-19 crisis.

• Muhammad Abbas Khan-Using ICT solutions to reach out to the most vulnerable population, especially women and children

• Saad Ahmed Khan - Applications of ultraviolet light as a disinfectant• Mubashra Abid Khan & Awais Rahat- An end-to-end health tech platform, providing online

consultation, and dashboards for day-to-day reporting• Dr Samina Alam- Manufacturing multipurpose Herbal Disinfectant• Osama Ahmed Tahir- A platform for authentic news, which is secure and immutable, endorsed

by the professional community.• Syeda Maarij Hassan- Manufacturing and distributing low-cost reusable face shields for front-

line workers.


• Zara Laeeque-Transforming textbook knowledge into interactive video content, available in regional languages.

• Muhammad Usman-Tracking COVID-19 positive and suspectable patients using GPS technology • Azlaan Mansoor Khan-Using automated RFID surveillance for tracking recovery of COVID-19

positive patients• Usama Humayun- Manufacturing emergency ventilators• Noorin Khan-Čhakou’ is an online platform which assists frontline health workers by assign-

ing their household chores to volunteers so that frontline healthcare workers focus on what matters the most - saving lives.

• Muhammad Moeez Malik-low-cost non-invasive automatic ambulator, working on the princi-ple of PEEP (Positive End Expiratory Pressure), developed for the mechanical ventilation of the patients suffering from COVID-19.

SECTION 2.3: MENTORS

The NIC brought together a pool of 27 domain experts as mentors. These mentors were assigned to the 25 finalists, as per their mentoring needs. The mentoring sessions were spread over a period of four days with each participant receiving two to three mentoring sessions from multiple domain experts.

Aaqib SayedGroup GM -

Marketing & Growth - Multinet Pakistan (Private) Limited

Adeel DurveshCEO, Parhaosabaq

Aisha SarwariDirector Corporate

Communications and Sustainability - Jazz

Ali RizviExpert Innovation &

Entreprenuership, Jazz

Aqueela MumtazHead of Financial Control, Risk and

Tax, Jazz

Armaghan BehlumSoftware Engineer,

Verily

Umair YousafHead of Products

(SME), Jazz

Dr. kamran IqbalConsultant - Public Private Partnership,

World Bank

Fahad AzizCo-Founder,Caremerge

Fakhar EjazHead of Talent,

Learning & Culture, Jazz

Farhan BashirHead of Research,

UBL Fund Managers

Fasieh MehtaProgram Manager,

NIC

Fauad HasanManaging Director,

Fynash-LLC

Furqan QureshiFounder, TheFourDees

Haris JavedHead of Digital

Products & Growth, Jazz


Ibrar KhanVice President Cor-porate & Economic

Affairs, Jazz

Jawad AliHead of People

Analytics & Total Rewards, Jazz

Junaid BajwaDoctor, NHS

Khalique ZamanLegal Consultant, PCL

Maryam M. AhmedFounder & Director, Social Innovation

Lab

AMohtashimAhmad Siddiqi

Legal Consultant, PCL

Saad SohailHead of Digital Prod-ucts & Solutions, Jazz

Shomail NaqviChief Executive, Transformation

Professionals PVT LTD

Syed Abdul BasitFounder,VISIONi

Fakhar EjazHead of Talent,

Learning & Culture, Jazz

Syed Yusuf IftikharAssociate Professor, Royal Derby Hospital

Umme Kulsoom Khattak

Assistant Professor, Shifa College of

Medicine

Usman QureshiHead of Procurement

and SCM, Jazz

SECTION 2.4: THE JUDGES

The judging panel comprised of health professionals, including doctors and microbiologists, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and advisors.

Aamer EjazChief Digital & Strat-

egy Officer, Jazz

Muhammad Ali Iqbal

General Manager Solicitation,

Engagement & Evaluation,

Ignite National Technology Fund

Andaleeb AhmedPresident, OPEN

Silicon Valley

Ayesha KhanCEO & Country Head, Pakistan at Acumen

Dr Amir BurneyPresident,

Association of Pakistani

Physicians of Northern Europe


Dr. Athar OsamaProgram Chair, Grand, Higher

Education Commission

Dr. Junaid BajwaGlobal Lead for

Strategic Alliances, Digital Centre of

Excellence, Merck

Dr. UsmanMushtaq

Advisor, Ministry of National Health

Services, Regulations and Coordination

Dr.Zakkiuddin Ahmed

CEO, Digital care

Faraz KhanCo-Founder, Seed

Ventures

Faisla AftabManaging Partner,

Lakson VentureCapital (LVC)

Haris JavedHead of Digital

Products & Growth, Jazz

Ignacio ArtazaCountry Head, UNDP

Pakistan

Jehan AraFounder,

The Nest I/O

Junaid ImamMember IT, Ministry

of IT & Telecom - CEO, Ignite

Mian TalhaNasruddin

Head of Digital Products, Growth & Startup Ecosystem,

Jazz

Misbah NaqviPartner, I2I Ventures

Shahida SaleemHead,

PEP Foundation

SECTION 2.5: HACKATHON PARTNERS

The National Incubation Center would like to express gratitude towards all partners who contributed in the success of the event. The support provided by them, in the form of mentorship, media coverage, and participation in judging panel, added immense val-ue to the event, and its purpose. The international reach and rich expertise, the hack-athon witnessed, would not have been possible, without the support of our partners.


3.2: THE WINNERS

Muhammad Zeeshan - 1st PrizeFounder DetectNOW

3.1: MESSAGE FROM ZOUHAIR KHALIQ

“The National Health Hackathon was a purposeful event, which witnessed participation from across the globe, with a broad spec-trum of ideas. Indeed, we need to work collaboratively to deal with the growing challenges of the world. I would like to extend my gratitude towards all partner organizations whose support made this event a huge success and congratulate all winners on their achievement.”

Zouhair KhaliqCo-Founder, Teamup

SECTION 3 THE CLOSING

DetectNow Use Deep Learn-ing to diagnose COVID-19 Patients, by collecting audio cough samples on the cloud. The non-invasive, AI based system allows a user to re-cord his coughing sound, which is used to diagnose whether he COVID positive or not.

Urooj Zia - 2nd PrizeFounder, Mahaul Mate

Syed Wajahat - 3rd PrizeFounder, Learning Pitch

MahulMate is manufacturing reusable and easy-to-wear FFP3 and N95 masks from locally-produced materials, providing protection against the Novel Coronavirus as well as regular pollutants.

LearningPitch has created an online learning solution that provides recorded lectures to intermediate (www.myinter-academy.com), CA, ACCA and ICMA (www.tsbeducation.com) students via a best-in-class learning management system.


The initiative taken by the National Incubation Center, to deal with the health challenges faced by the world, does not end here. The NIC will be extending technical and business support to the winners, to enable them in materializing their ideas and reaching their business goals. Win-ners will gain wild card entries into NIC’s 8th Cohort, joining the incubation program in July 2020. NIC will continue to provide mentoring, digital marketing and media support, technology credits, technical tools, and any other possible assistance, to collaboratively enable the innovative busi-nesses in resolving problems being faced by humanity in current times, and times to come.

3.3: WHAT’S NEXT?

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