Jewel AI by HealthGrid Africa
Not feeling well? Tell Jewel. Know where to go for care.
Jewel is HealthGrid Africa's care assistant on WhatsApp. Describe how you feel in English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Pidgin, and Jewel helps you decide your next step, from caring for yourself at home to seeing a doctor.
WhatsApp +234 702 595 8853 · Free to message, nothing to install
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- 1Message Jewel
- 2Your next step
- 3See a doctor
- 4After your visit
Example conversation. Tap a language to hear Jewel in it. Coming next: call Jewel by phone, chat on this website, medicines to your door.
What brings you here today?
Who we serve
One assistant, three ways in

You and your family
Private guidance on your phone, for you, your children and your parents, wherever you are in Nigeria.
How Jewel helps you →
Organisations
HMOs, employers, faith-based groups, NGOs, associations, estates and health insurance schemes give their members Jewel.
See how it works for you →
Providers
Doctors in Nigeria and the diaspora, pharmacies, labs and hospitals who want to see the patients Jewel sends their way.
Join the network →How it works
Three messages from “I don’t feel well” to a clear next step
Say hello on WhatsApp
Message +234 702 595 8853 and choose your language. There is nothing to download.
Answer a few questions
Jewel asks simple questions about how you feel, one at a time, in plain words.
Know where to go next
Care at home, a doctor soon, or urgent care now. When you need a doctor, Jewel helps you reach one.
Keep your care going
One chat for every visit
Save Jewel's number once. Each time you need care, you come back to the same WhatsApp chat.
- After a doctor visitYour prescription and any lab request arrive in your WhatsApp.Available now
- For your familyAsk Jewel about a child or a parent from your own phone.Available now
- Reminders and check-insReminders to take your medicine and a check-in after your visit.Coming next
- Health guides in your languageShort guides in five languages, each one clinically reviewed.Coming next
Speak the way you speak at home
Health is personal. Jewel meets you in the language you think in.
For organisations
Give the people you cover a first stop that answers at any hour
Members reach Jewel on WhatsApp. You see how care is being used, in a dashboard built for your team. We start with a pilot group and grow from there.
- HMOs
- Employers
- Faith-based groups
- Health insurance schemes
Built on trust
Made in Nigeria, by people who have built here for decades
HealthGrid was founded by Nengi Jumbo, with twenty-two years of infrastructure delivery experience in the Niger Delta, including large-scale primary healthcare infrastructure. Jewel answers the question that work kept raising: why should anyone travel for hours just to learn whether they need a doctor?
Questions people ask
Feeling unwell right now?
Message Jewel on WhatsApp. Nothing to download and no account to create. If it is an emergency, call 112 first.
