Ambient Clinical AI · Kenya

Give every Kenyan doctor back their time — and their patient's full attention.

Dura listens, transcribes, and documents your consultations in real time — in Swahili, English, or both — so nothing falls through the cracks.

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Dura Health
1 : 5,000
Kenya's doctor-to-patient ratio — among the lowest in the world
35–40%
of clinical time lost to documentation instead of patient care
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clinical AI tools built for Swahili-English code-switching — until now
What Dura Does

The doctor's attention stays on the patient. Dura makes sure nothing gets lost.

Dura sits quietly alongside a doctor during a consultation, turning the natural back-and-forth — including everyday Swahili-English code-switching — into a clean, structured note.

Real-time transcription

Tuned for how Kenyan doctors actually speak — Swahili and English, mixed mid-sentence, the way it happens in a real exam room.

Automatic SOAP notes

Structured to Kenyan MoH documentation standards, ready to review, edit, and copy into any system.

Body-map tracking

Visual, simple symptom tracking — separating what the patient reports from what the doctor observes.

Every hour Dura gives back is an hour spent looking at the patient, not the screen. Less time on the keyboard means fewer missed details, better continuity of care, and more of what actually makes a consultation good medicine.

Already in Doctors' Hands

12 doctors across Kenya are using Dura Lite today.

Not a demo. Not a prototype. We're deliberately taking our time before opening more spots, so every doctor who joins gets a tool that's ready for them.

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Currently in active pilot across Kenya
Product

One browser extension. Zero procurement friction.

Dura Lite works alongside whatever system you already use — no hospital IT approval, no new hardware, no workflow disruption.

01

Consent, first — always

Before Dura listens to anything, the patient consents. This is a hard stop, not a formality. No consent, no audio processed.

02

Listen

Dura transcribes the consultation in real time, understanding natural Swahili-English code-switching as it's actually spoken.

03

Understand

Dura separates patient testimony from doctor narration, and picks out clinical terms, symptoms, and medications.

04

Structure

A clean SOAP note is generated automatically — formatted to Kenyan MoH documentation standards, ready to copy anywhere.

05

Visualise

An interactive body map tracks reported and observed symptoms — separately, clearly.

06

Review

The doctor reviews and confirms. Every suggestion is clearly labelled — never a diagnosis. The doctor always has the final word.

What's next: Dura Mobile for rural clinics and CHWs, Dura Pro with full HIMS integration, and Dura Enterprise for county and national health systems — all built on the same clinical intelligence infrastructure.

Why Dura Exists

Built from the African clinical context outward.

"Mgonjwa anasema ana maumivu ya kichwa, lakini naona BP yake iko juu." Mid-sentence code-switching between Swahili and clinical English — ordinary in a Kenyan exam room, and unrecognised by every Western clinical AI tool.

Vision

To make world-class clinical intelligence available to every healthcare worker in Africa.

Mission

Clinical intelligence that understands the African clinical landscape — its patients, languages, and healthcare systems — to supercharge clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.

The Team

A physician and a technologist, building together.

Dr. Shelly Okumu

Dr. Shelly Okumu

Co-Founder & CEO
MBChB · MSc International Health, Charité Berlin · KMPDC-registered
12+ years inside Kenya's health system — Sub-County Medical Officer of Health, county programme leadership, and most recently operationalising an AI-driven HIV risk-prediction model inside KenyaEMR.
Arnie Chitwa Astrill

Arnie Chitwa Astrill

Co-Founder
PhD Candidate - United States International University - Africa, AI strategy & technology leadership · ex-Microsoft Security · Nairobi-based
Leads product and engineering — from the language and speech-recognition pipeline to the clinical application layer doctors use every day. Building at home, for Africa.

Kenya first • East Africa next • Entire Africa eventually.

Trust & Compliance

Trust isn't a layer we added later. It's part of how Dura was built.

01

Consent before anything else. No audio is ever processed without the patient's explicit consent — a hard stop, not a setting.

02

Support, never decision-making. Every differential is labelled "Suggested — confirm clinically." The doctor decides.

03

No raw audio, ever. Only the structured, anonymised transcript and note are retained — with consent.

04

Full auditability. Every interaction is logged in an append-only audit trail.

05

Ambient, never disruptive. Dura never interrupts a consultation.

Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019

In-country data residency, encryption at rest, and DPA-compliant handling from the ground up — not retrofitted after the fact.

Documentation tool, not diagnostic tool

Dura supports clinical documentation and surfaces suggestions for the doctor to confirm. It does not make clinical decisions.

Engaging regulators early

We're engaging directly with KMPDC and the Ministry of Health as the product develops — so Dura grows inside the regulatory frame, not around it.

Waitlist

Dura is already in doctors' hands.

12 doctors across Kenya are using Dura Lite in real consultations — today.
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Doctors across Nairobi, Kisumu, and beyond are already on the list.

Contact

Get in touch.

Doctors, press, partners, and investors — we'd like to hear from you. Doctors interested in the pilot should use the Waitlist above.

Email
hello@durahealth.fyi
Phone
+254 721 125 856
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
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