CAREMAP

Healthcare discovery with evidence, not just listings

CAREMAP discovers non-governmental organizations in Nigeria that offer free or subsidized healthcare services from public sources, then structures the evidence behind those claims.

Instead of simply saying:

"This non-governmental organization provides maternal health services."

CAREMAP helps answer:

"What does this organization publicly claim to provide, where is it located, how can people access it, and what evidence supports the claim?"

Why CAREMAP exists

Healthcare information about services provided by non-governmental organizations in Nigeria is scattered across organization websites, directories, program pages, announcements, and other public sources.

A directory can tell you that an organization exists.

CAREMAP goes further by connecting:

Organization → Service → Location → Access → Evidence

It also preserves uncertainty.

If information cannot be publicly verified, CAREMAP does not treat that as proof that the service does not exist. It reports the information as not publicly verified.

What CAREMAP extracts

Depending on the available public evidence, CAREMAP can identify:

• Organization name and description
• Organization type
• Health areas
• Services
• Target populations
• Locations
• Public contact information
• Website information
• Appointment requirements
• Referral requirements
• Other publicly documented access requirements
• Supporting source URLs
• Evidence snippets
• Evidence status
• Last verification timestamp

Evidence model

Every important claim can carry evidence describing:

• The claim
• Source URL
• Source type
• Source tier
• Source title
• Evidence snippet
• Date checked
• Evidence status

Evidence statuses

source_backed

The claim is supported by at least one public source.

independently_corroborated

The same service claim is supported by independent source types, such as an established directory and the organization's official website.

conflicting

Available sources contain materially different information.

stale

The available evidence is too old to confidently represent the current situation.

not_publicly_verified

CAREMAP could not find sufficient public evidence to support the claim.

Not publicly verified does not mean the service does not exist.

The same principle governs what happens when a whole search comes back empty — see "When no NGOs are found" below.

Source hierarchy

CAREMAP distinguishes sources rather than treating every webpage as equally authoritative.

Current source tiers include:

1. Official government registry
2. Organization official website
3. Official organization social account
4. Established directory
5. News or third-party source
6. Unverified mention

Current discovery pipeline

For the current MVP, CAREMAP can:

1. Discover relevant healthcare organizations from public directories.
2. Filter results by health area and location.
3. Open organization profiles.
4. Extract organization information and public contact details.
5. Discover the organization's official website when available.
6. Crawl relevant pages on that website.
7. Extract service claims and access information.
8. Attach evidence to those claims.
9. Resolve potential duplicate organizations.
10. Merge evidence from multiple sources.
11. Produce a structured dataset.

Directory discovery currently runs against NGOBase's Nigeria listings. NGOBase organizes NGOs by country, then by "work area" (e.g. Health) and "sub work area" (e.g. Maternal Health, Free Dental Care). CAREMAP maps each supported health area to the closest real NGOBase category it can find: some health areas (Maternal Health, Mental Health, Free Dental Care, Free Eye Care, Population Welfare, WASH, Disability Support, Malaria, HIV/AIDS) have a dedicated NGOBase category; others (Reproductive Health, Family Planning, Child Health, Rehabilitation, Laboratory Services) do not, so CAREMAP seeds the search from the nearest related category instead and relies more heavily on keyword and alias matching against each organization's tagged health areas and description to narrow the result down. Location filtering works the same way: it maps to NGOBase's Nigerian state-level listings where one exists, and falls back to the national Health listing plus text filtering otherwise.

Supported health areas

The healthArea input accepts (case-insensitive):

• Maternal health
• Reproductive health
• Family planning
• Child health
• Mental health
• Population welfare
• WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
• Disability support
• Malaria
• HIV/AIDS
• Nutrition / hunger
• Dental care (dental, dental health, oral health)
• Eye care (vision, ophthalmology)
• Rehabilitation (physical therapy, physiotherapy)
• Laboratory services (laboratory, lab services, diagnostics)

Health areas without a dedicated NGOBase category (currently: reproductive health, family planning, child health, rehabilitation, and laboratory services) are matched against the closest real category plus text/alias matching, so results for those areas should be treated as a starting point rather than an exact tag match.

Supported locations

The location input accepts (case-insensitive) these Nigerian states, which currently have a dedicated NGOBase state-level listing:

• Lagos
• Borno
• Edo
• Federal Capital Territory (also accepts "FCT" or "Abuja")
• Kano State (also accepts "Kano")
• Oyo (also accepts "Ibadan")
• Rivers (also accepts "Port Harcourt")
• Taraba These are the only Nigerian states NGOBase currently indexes any NGOs for at all, not a CAREMAP-side restriction, but a reflection of NGOBase's own coverage.

Any other location (a different state, a city, or a free-text area) is still accepted and CAREMAP falls back to NGOBase's single national Nigeria Health listing and filters results by text-matching the location against each organization's stated city, state, and country. This tends to produce sparser, less targeted results than a location on the list above, since it depends on the organization's profile mentioning that location by name rather than being indexed under a matching state page.

When no NGOs are found

A health area and location search can legitimately come back with zero organizations — that's expected, not an error. NGOBase's categories are real, but some are sparsely populated for Nigeria; "Free Dental Care", for example, currently lists no organizations nationally even though the category itself is a genuine part of NGOBase's taxonomy.

When this happens, CAREMAP does not just return an empty list. It reports a clear, well-formatted summary explaining:

• That no matching organizations were found for this run
• That this does not mean the service doesn't exist — only that no public listing matching both filters could be verified (the same "not_publicly_verified" principle that governs individual evidence claims)
• Whether the health area searched has a dedicated NGOBase category, or used a closest-match fallback (which affects how much a zero result should be trusted as conclusive)
• Concrete next steps: broadening the location, raising the organization limit, trying a related health area, or re-running later as listings change
• What was actually searched (health area, location, and source page(s) checked) and when

Example

Input:

Health area: maternal health
Location: Lagos
Maximum organizations: 25
Include evidence: true

Output example:

Organization:
The Wellbeing Foundation Africa

Health areas:
- Maternal health
- Reproductive health
- Child health

Services:
- Postnatal care
- Family planning
- Nutrition support
- Immunization
- Health education

Evidence:
- Organization directory source
- Official website pages
- Supporting evidence snippets
- Timestamp showing when the information was checked

Evidence status:
source_backed
or
independently_corroborated

Exact results depend on the public information
available at the time of the run.

Screenshots

Actor input

Successful run

Structured output

Published Actor

Actor inputs

healthArea

The health area to investigate. See "Supported health areas" above for the full list.

Examples:

maternal health
reproductive health
child health
mental health
dental care
eye care
rehabilitation
laboratory services

location

The Nigerian state, city, or geographic area to focus on.

Example:

Lagos

maxOrganizations

Maximum number of organization records to return.

includeEvidence

Whether supporting public source information should be collected.

Output

CAREMAP writes structured organization records to the Actor dataset.

Each organization can include:

• organizationId
• name
• organizationType
• description
• healthAreas
• services
• serviceClaims
• targetPopulation
• locations
• access
• evidence
• evidenceStatus
• sourceUrls
• lastVerifiedAt

If a run finds no matching organizations, the dataset (or run log, at minimum) carries the formatted no-results summary described above instead of an unexplained empty result.

Built for more than a directory

CAREMAP is designed as an evidence layer for healthcare discovery.

The current MVP focuses on publicly discoverable health organizations and services. The architecture is designed to expand to:

• Hospitals
• Clinics
• Primary healthcare centres
• Laboratories
• Imaging centres
• Pharmacies
• Government health facilities
• Health NGOs
• Additional Nigerian states
• Additional health domains

Important limitations

CAREMAP works with publicly available information.

It does not guarantee that:

• a facility is currently operating
• a service is currently available
• a service has available capacity
• a published phone number is still active
• a website accurately reflects current operations

Healthcare organizations can change their services, hours, requirements, and contact information without updating every public source.

CAREMAP therefore presents public evidence and its freshness, rather than pretending that scraped information is ground truth.

CAREMAP is a healthcare information and discovery tool. It is not a clinical decision-making system and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or emergency services.

Privacy

The current Actor is designed around publicly available organizational information.

It does not require patients to submit medical records or personal health information.

Technology

CAREMAP is built with:

• Apify Actors (danek/twitter-scraper for x(twitter) search and scraper_one/facebook-posts-search for facebook posts search)
• Crawlee (For NGObase search)
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Structured dataset outputs
• Evidence-aware extraction
• Entity resolution and source merging

Apify provides the collection and execution infrastructure that allows CAREMAP to turn fragmented public healthcare information into structured, reusable data.

Roadmap

Future capabilities can include:

• More authoritative healthcare registries
• More source types
• Deeper service-level evidence
• Geographic service-gap analysis
• Freshness monitoring
• Source conflict detection
• Healthcare pathway and referral dependencies
• Scheduled evidence refreshes
• API and research-data integrations
• Coverage across additional Nigerian states

The bigger idea

Most healthcare directories answer:

"Where is healthcare?"

CAREMAP is designed to answer:

"Who provides this care, where are they, what do they publicly claim to offer, and what evidence do we have?"

CAREMAP

Don't just find care. Map the evidence behind it.