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ShareAbed

ShareAbed is a crowdsourcing web application that aims to solve the pressure of non-availablity of beds by building a community locally with donation of beds and rooms for quarantine.

The problem ShareAbed solves

We can see that when we restart India, there will be a lot of rise in the Covid cases across the country. This can lead to a huge pressure on the local hospitals and we wont be able to stop them.
Further its hard right now to keep track on issues happening locally with respect to covid cases.
We have learnt from the past that community building is the best way to tackle any situation. We learn from the experience of how Kerala came over the 2018 flood disaster.
So we build a crowdsourcing appliation for the people by the people.
Here people can donate their extra beds or say private rooms like hostels to the hospital in realtime. People can come forward and donate so that local hospitals can get benifited.
There will be lot of people travelling from one place to another and need of quarantine, and private rooms can help them with this.
Whenever people donate the information is send to the health authorities. Only after the verification the dination is confirmed as succesfull.
Once donated the user will receive badges and come in the donors list.
We also have quick local information regarding the covid happenings and also quick map to know about near by medical emergencies.
People have an option to donate money so that those can be used for local needs. This could calso be used for hospital purposes. This way we can concentrate more on healing people than ways to admitting them.
The interface is directly connected with the hospitals so that we ensure all transparency happen in donation and other services.
In this way we belive that community can come together stronger and tackle the covid pressure on our local hospitals.

Challenges we ran into

Building payment integration was challenging task as we hadnt worked on it before.
Everyone was new to PHP and had to learn it.
Integrating map services was aslo bit of a task.

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