Clinic record system unusable during power cuts
Example district clinic · West Africa (synthetic)
- Date observed
- 27 Feb 2026
- Last update
- 8 Jun 2026
- Local contact
- Clinic records officer
Current status
Observed
Completed
Verified
Completed
Open
Current
Solution Proposed
Not reached
Testing
Not reached
Resolved
Not reached
Monitored
Not reached
Active and awaiting workable solutions.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS STATUS?
A documented count of outage hours against records lost, plus one workable offline-first proposal, would move this to Solution Proposed. Evidence that the backup supply already covers the gap would close it.
Every record states in advance what evidence would move it. A status is a current reading of the evidence, not a verdict.
Local context
Staff fall back to paper during outages and then re-enter records later, producing duplicates and gaps.
Who is affected: Clinic staff and their patient records (synthetic).
Evidence
Evidence summary: Synthetic duplicate-record counts; under review.
Evidence here does not mean absolute truth. It means: a record exists, with a source, a date and a provenance, and it has reached the review stage shown below.
Counts of duplicate and incomplete records matched against outage dates.
- Source
- Clinic records officer (synthetic)
- Evidence submitted
- 16 May 2026
- Provenance
- Internal export; matching against outage dates done manually.
- Evidence reviewed
- Not reviewed
What is needed
- Offline-first data design
- Conflict-resolution logic
- Staff workflow review
- Low-power hardware advice
Proposed solutions
No active proposal. This issue is waiting for someone who knows how to approach it.
Tests
No solution proposed yet.
Updates
- OBSERVATION· Local contributor
Duplicate records appear after each outage.
- EVIDENCE· Local contributor
Duplicate counts submitted; matching method noted as manual.
Outcome
No outcome recorded yet. This is the current evidence-backed state of the issue, not a final conclusion.