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SelfConsult is a Cameroon for-profit corporation and internet-based medical network based in Yaounde, Cameroon. SelfConsult website was launched on January 21, 2014, by Tchokote Herve, along with his friends, Ndjiki Wilfred, Dr Piere Foko and Mbezele Henriette.

Today, you can consult in form of audio and video at your home, Office and everywhere you are at an affordable price and receive health tips send to subscribed patients at a small price of 0.20 USD per week and 0.81 USD a month. Health services like Pharmacies, clinics, laboratories can advertise at 4.32 USD per month on SelfConsult rendering accessibility for the lower class easier. Also, selfconsult.org offers principally two services on its platform which are; "SelfConsult" and "SelfSearch". SelfConsult is the online medical service which offers consultation and health information (health tips) to the population. While on the other hand, SelfSearch is our online search service which helps find different medical doctors, pharmacies and hospitals plus health articles in the patient location.

SelfConsult may be accessed by a large range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones over the Internet. After registering to use the site, patients can create a user profile indicating their name, weight, year of birth and so on. While on the other hand, to create a doctor profile, you need to contact us first through the doctor registration page When you contact us, we will then fix a rendez-vous to verify your status and then complete other details concerning your usage. When the patient finish creating their profiles, they can start communicating instantly with their desired doctors on the platform.

History
In 2013, we were always asking ourself why can we not just be where we are and get our medication and/or prescription at one point. That point could be any technology or engineering discipline to ease the accessibility of our health information, that is, to be able to create a health data catalog to store information concerning the patient and hand it to patients or doctors when they need a particular information. Thereafter, We taught of connecting and creating a platform where by patient can connect with each other and share their experience, but still, it didn’t work at my expectation since patients wanted a network which is private and secured. In early 2014, after doing a proper literature review with patients’ feedbacks, we decided to change the product name from iConsult to SelfConsult which means connecting and consulting ourself to one medical doctor in private and in a secured channel. This platform is meant today to facilitate the communication between medical doctors and patients in Cameroon with hopes to expand to every parts of Africa. The African Entrepreneurial Award publish SelfConsult as the Start-up that will mostly succeed in Africa in 2016. In July 2016, our project featured in the Young African Leadership Initiative launched by president Barack Obama where our CEO is now a member. Media like CRTV (Cameroon) talks about our initiative and movement towards cameroon development in the Health sector.