14 Nigerian languages

Ọmọ mi ibà ga, ṣé ó ṣe pàtàkì?

My child has a high fever. Is it serious?

Not a diagnosis. In an emergency call 112.

Bells triageYorùbá · 02:14

Ọmọ mi ní ibà tó ga, ṣé ó ṣe pàtàkì?

  • Reading your health profile
  • Checking maternal and child guidance
  • Assessing symptoms
High risk

Under 3 months with fever. Go to a hospital today, do not wait.

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What Bells covers

Nine things it can help with before you reach a clinic

Bells is not a replacement for a doctor. It is the layer before one: working out how urgent this is, what to do in the meantime, and where to go.

  • First aid, right now

    Choking, bleeding, burns, seizures, snakebite. Step by step, including the things people commonly do that make it worse.

  • Symptom triage

    A proper history, then a clear risk level and what to do about it. Never a diagnosis.

  • Pregnancy and child health

    Danger signs in pregnancy, newborn care, child fever and diarrhoea, feeding and growth.

  • Mental health

    Low mood, anxiety, grief, burnout, and crisis support. Treated as seriously as a physical symptom.

  • Real hospitals near you

    Facilities from the Bells directory only. Bells will tell you it found nothing before it invents a name.

  • Immunisation schedule

    Nigeria's routine schedule, what is due now, and how to catch up on a missed dose.

  • Medication safety

    How to take it, what to watch for, spotting counterfeits, and why the full antimalarial course matters.

  • Living with a condition

    Hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell, asthma, HIV, epilepsy. Daily routine, diet, and warning signs.

  • Local health alerts

    Active outbreak notices for your area, from live data. No estimated numbers.

How the triage works

Four steps, and the third one is the point

Most symptom checkers hand you a list of conditions and let you panic. Bells sorts urgency first, because the only question that matters at 2am is whether this can wait until morning.

The three outcomes

  • HighHospital now, or call 112
  • MediumClinic or PHC within 24 to 48 hours
  • LowManage at home, review if it lasts past 3 days
  1. You describe it however you like

    In any of 14 Nigerian languages, in whatever order it comes out. No forms, no dropdowns, no medical vocabulary required.

  2. Bells asks what a clinician would ask

    Where it hurts and how, when it started, what else came with it, your age, medicines, allergies, whether you are pregnant. Two or three things at a time, not an interrogation.

  3. It watches for red flags the whole way

    Chest pain, breathing difficulty, bleeding in pregnancy, a stiff neck with fever, thoughts of self-harm. If one appears, the conversation stops being a conversation and becomes an instruction.

  4. You get a risk level and one clear action

    High, medium, or low, with what to do and by when. Plus a real facility near you if you need one.

Language

Answers come back in the language you asked in

Not translated English. Bells writes the whole reply in your language, keeps the register right, and follows you if you switch mid-conversation. If you write in a Nigerian language it does not recognise, it answers in that one anyway rather than defaulting to English.

  • English
  • Hausa
  • Igbo
  • Yorùbá
  • Nigerian Pidgin
  • Fulfulde
  • Kanuri
  • Tiv
  • Efik
  • Ibibio
  • Ẹdo
  • Ịjọ
  • Nupe
  • Idoma

Detection is strongest for English, Hausa, Igbo, Yorùbá and Pidgin. For the others Bells leans on the model to identify and match your language, which is why an unrecognised message still gets a reply in it rather than a fallback to English.

Mental health

It is not weakness, and it is not a spiritual failing

Bells treats how you are coping as a real health question, with the same care as a fever. No judgement, no lecture, no telling you to pray harder or be strong.

You get validation first, then practical coping steps that work in a Nigerian context, and a straight answer about when this is worth seeing someone about.

  • Low mood and depression
  • Anxiety and panic
  • Stress and burnout
  • Sleep problems
  • Grief
  • Trauma

If you are in crisis

If you are thinking about ending your life or harming yourself, please reach out now. Call 112 or go to the nearest hospital, and tell someone you trust so you are not alone.

Every message you send is screened for this before the model ever sees it, so the safety response does not depend on Bells choosing to notice. Organisations like the Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative and the Nigeria Suicide Prevention Initiative can connect you with a trained responder.

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Safety

What Bells refuses to do

A health assistant is only as good as its behaviour when it does not know something. These are the limits, and they are enforced in the product rather than promised in a policy.

In an emergency

Call 112 or go to the nearest hospital. Bells is not an emergency service and does not replace one.

  • It will not invent a hospital

    Facilities come from the Bells directory. If the directory has nothing for your area, Bells says so and points you at 112, rather than producing a plausible name and phone number.

  • It will not invent an outbreak figure

    Alert data comes from live records. Where there is none, Bells tells you there is none instead of estimating a percentage.

  • It will not diagnose you

    You get a risk level and possible things to explore with a clinician. Never a verdict on what you have.

  • Crisis checks do not depend on the model

    Every message is screened for signs of suicidal thinking or self-harm before the model sees it. If it fires, safety guidance is guaranteed in the reply, not left to chance.

  • It will not prescribe

    Medication guidance covers how to take something safely and when to stop. Choosing the drug is a clinician's job, and Bells says so.

Pricing

Start free. Pay only if you lean on it

Triage, clinic search, mental health support and Nigerian language chat are all on the free plan. Nothing urgent sits behind a paywall.

Free

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  • 200 AI messages / month
  • Symptom triage and clinic search
  • Chat in 14 Nigerian languages
  • Mental health and crisis support
  • Local alerts, read only in app
Current plan

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For people and families who lean on Bells every week.

₦31,500

per month, billed monthly

  • 10,000 AI messages / month
  • Maternal, child, and immunisation guidance
  • First aid and medication safety
  • Saved health profile across sessions
  • Priority model routing and lower latency
  • Extended chat history and priority alerts
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PHC networks, insurers, and public health programmes.

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SLA, audit logs, and deployment options

  • Unlimited AI usage (fair use)
  • Org directory and seat management
  • Audit trails and data residency options
  • Dedicated support and onboarding
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The next time something feels wrong, ask

Free to start, in your language, at whatever hour you need it.

Not a diagnosis, and not an emergency service. In an emergency call 112.