Ìwẹrẹ Care. In pilot. Growing carefully.
Ìwẹrẹ Care is building a way to connect volunteer diaspora physicians with patients at our pilot health centres in Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State. We run it with The Roli Mabo Foundation. We’re still building credentialing, scheduling, and the clinical app. If you’re a physician in the diaspora, help us shape what comes next.
Pilot started
We began Ìwẹrẹ Care in 2025, together with The Roli Mabo Foundation, as a pilot in Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State.
Now · since 2025Two pilot health centres
Our pilot health centres are Jakpa Health Centre (2 beds) and Ugbege Health Centre (5 beds). We are recruiting volunteer diaspora physicians to work with the teams there.
Pilot · nowConvention 2026
The program operating model is presented at Convention 2026, Sept 4 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Volunteer physician onboarding opens broadly after.
Sept 4, 2026Planned sites
Warri Central and Sapele are the next planned sites. They are not open yet; we will say so here when they are.
PlannedThree things at once. All in active design.
Volunteer interest
The volunteer physician network
We're recruiting diaspora physicians licensed in the US, UK, Canada, or Nigeria who can give a few hours a month. Priority specialties: primary care, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, mental health, internal medicine.
- Credentialing process — being designed
- Malpractice coverage — being secured
- Scheduling and shift system — in build
- Continuing-education partnerships — exploring
The health centre model
Our goal is that each health centre has a Starlink uplink, solar power, and a tablet running the Ìwẹrẹ Care app. We're starting small at Jakpa and Ugbege — agreements first, hardware second, training third.
- Pilot health centres — Jakpa and Ugbege
- Starlink and solar kit — vendor evaluation
- Hub training curriculum — drafting
- Patient intake protocols — drafting
The clinical operating model
Encrypted telehealth visits, clear referral paths, follow-up calls in Itsekiri, and a real chart system — built so volunteer physicians can give two hours a week and feel safe doing it.
- Encrypted video visits — in build
- Itsekiri-language follow-up calls — designing
- Specialist referral pathway — designing
- Chart and notes system — in build
How the health centres will work. In design.
Become a partner clinic
Reliable in riverine settings.
The Niger Delta has weak fiber and unreliable grid power. Ìwẹrẹ Care health centres are designed around that reality, not in spite of it. Hardware is sized per centre with the team on site.
Today the pilot runs at Jakpa and Ugbege. Warri Central and Sapele are planned. We won’t list a site as open until it’s real.
Starlink connectivity
Satellite internet at each health centre once hardware is in place. Designed so visits do not depend on local fiber and mobile carriers.
Solar and battery
Solar panels with a battery bank, planned to carry each health centre through grid outages. Capacity sized per centre with the team there.
Tablet visit interface
A tablet at each health centre running the Ìwẹrẹ Care app. A nurse at the centre handles intake; the volunteer physician joins by encrypted video.
Offline-first sync
Notes and vitals cache locally if the uplink drops, and sync when the connection returns. Designed for the realities of riverine sites.
Patient, caregiver, physician. Pick your path.
Physician interest
How a visit will work.
Come to Jakpa or Ugbege Health Centre. A nurse checks you in, then a volunteer diaspora physician joins the call. Your plan is discussed in Itsekiri or English.
- No fee to the patient
- Walk-in or scheduled — designed for both
- Itsekiri-language follow-up calls
Stay close from far away.
The caregiver tools are in design: enroll a parent at home, see their visit history, and coordinate with the health centre team — without waking them at 3 in the morning.
- Caregiver tools — in design
- Family Bridge plan — in design
- Shared visit dashboard — in build
Help us build this.
If you're licensed in the US, UK, Canada, or Nigeria and can give a few hours a month, we want to talk. Credentialing, scheduling, malpractice — we're designing all of it now and want clinical input.
- Credentialing process — being designed
- Malpractice coverage — being secured
- Pilot cohort forming for clinical input
The first volunteer call started this.
We have a pilot at two health centres. We need physicians and early donors to scale it carefully. No fake numbers, no fabricated doctor list — just real people building a real program.