About Cura
A company that started in the queue, not the pitch deck
Cura exists because the same patient in a Nigerian primary health centre is asked to retell their history every time they sit down. The folder is missing. The last chemist visit is a guess. The community health worker has the story in a notebook that stays in a bag. We are building the living record those visits never get, and an assistant that is only allowed to speak from that record.
The story
Adaeze Okonkwo spent years inside outreach programmes in Lagos and Ogun — watching CHEWs carry three books for one street, and watching officers start a consult from a verbal list given in a corridor. Ibrahim Suleiman had been building health informatics tools that assumed a desktop and a clerk. They started Cura to put enrolment, symptom logs, medicines, and a short plan on a phone that already lives in a wrapper.
The MVP is live. It is not a national EHR. It is the layer that has to exist before anyone can talk honestly about scale: a person, a log, a recommendation, a snapshot a clinician can read in a minute.
The mission
Give low-resource households and the workers who serve them a continuous health record, and guidance that belongs to that record — so a PHC visit starts with facts, not a performance of memory.
We work toward PHC boards, NGO outreach desks, and state innovation teams who need something they can put in the field this quarter, then grow into SMS, offline sync, and local-language prompts.
How we decide
The record comes first
Advice that is not tied to a person's own symptoms and medicines is noise. We refuse to ship a chatbot that lectures a stranger.
Build for the post, not the brochure
A CHEW's Tuesday is a queue, a dying battery, and three notebooks. If Cura cannot sit in that day, it does not ship.
Say what we are not
Cura is not a hospital, not a prescription pad, and not a replacement for a clinician. It is the memory and the handover that those visits currently lack.
Stay in Nigeria
The first users, the first partners, and the first constraints are here. We will not sand the product down so it looks like a US wellness app.