Ah, we came in the middle of the height of the HIV pandemic and we were taken from the airport to a rural community,
and we just saw people dying everywhere in the rural community and found that the biggest
barrier for people to access healthcare was transport.
And, for someone to get medical healthcare, they had to walk for something like 40, 50
kilometers just to get to a decent clinic.
And, so we started taking healthcare to the people, instead of expecting the people to come to us for healthcare.
The Luke Commission is an organization that is serving, here in Africa, in the...Eswatini country in the southern part of Africa.
We live in a country of about 1.3 million people, and we've been privileged over the last fifteen years to move from HIV
basically decimating our nation to today being one of the first nations in the world to actually achieve epidemic control for HIV.
We've, in the past several years, built a fixed facility in the middle of the country, and we service anyone who
comes to us for, for whatever health concern they have.
When you're fighting an epidemic like HIV, or even COVID now in the pandemic, the one thing you don't have is time.
One of our biggest challenges from a tech standpoint, you know, early on was we had a lot of siloed systems.
So you had, you know, your staff in one HR system over here, you had an inventory system that was separate.
What Claris allows us to do uh, is identify a challenge, work as a team to look at the best ways to solve it,
and then to develop it that same day moving forward.
We were able to pool time and attendance, HR, fleet management, asset management, inventory, medical record-keeping,
all of that into one platform where we could also design solutions that work for us.
For example, all our in patients they are connected to monitors so wherever I am, say that maybe I'm not not at work, I'm at home.
I am able to see those vitals coming in.
Critical-care COVID is probably the most undesirable job in the world, but we're committed to doing the hard things
because we see amazing miracles in the middle of this devastation.
So, today, about 99.95% of Eswatini's vaccinations have all occurred real-time through Claris FileMaker.
What we've learned over the last fifteen years is that love is the foundation for healing.
Claris FileMaker works for us because it allows us to fulfill our calling.
We are able to, to love everyone that comes into our medical campus, and we are able to love those that we reach
and those who are in far places, and we believe that love conquers everything.