Cairo-based Medicobot start-up has just launched its healthcare services, starting with a listed 575 doctors located nationwide available on messenger chatbot, announced Founder of Medicobot Eslam Youssef. Medicobot is a tech-enabled service that allows users on Facebook to depend on the chatbot technology to get a medical inquiry from physicians, who are specialized in different medical sectors, and ready to reply on such inquiries within an hour. “The service has received more than 6,000 medical inquiry in the first month,” said Youssef. Youssef and Medicobot Chief Medical Officer Ahmed Said, a dentist, agreed that the technology of the chatbots, which is available on the social media network of the Facebook, offers an easy access to users compared to downloading an application or a website to provide a first medical inquiry. Medicobot allows any user to access a list of physicians by searching with a certain medical specialization or an area, or a city. The user can get a list of physicians who give their first medical inquiry for free within one hour, according to said. Said added that launching Medicobot start-up plays a great role in the relation between the physician…
