About us
ZATROC is the first school-healthcare company in Iraq.
We started in Najaf with a clear idea: every student is checked regularly by a doctor inside their own school, and every checkup is kept in one health record that parents follow from their phone.
Company details
- Founded
- 2026
- Funding
- Self-funded (bootstrapped)
- Headquarters
- Najaf, Iraq
- Phone
- +964 785 542 0009
- contact@zatroc.app
- Website
- zatroc.app
How we started
ZATROC was founded in Najaf by two co-founders: one built the network of schools we work with, the other designed and built the platform. We started from a simple observation: a student's health is usually looked at only when they fall ill, and little of it reaches their parents. So we bring the doctor to the school, and gather every checkup in one record that grows with the student, year after year.
Our mission
To bring regular healthcare to thousands of children in primary schools, employ hundreds of new doctors who cannot find work today, and bring patients back to independent clinics crushed by bigger ones.
How the service works
The doctor
Comes to the school, takes the measurements and vital signs, examines the student, and decides the result: normal, follow-up or referral.
The parent
Gets the summary on their phone, with what to do next if there is a follow-up or a referral.
Jobs for new doctors
Our model rests on newly graduated doctors whom we employ, pay and place inside schools. The doctor gains experience and a steady income; the school gets a doctor without paying a salary.
Team
Hussein Mirza
Co-founder · Design, engineering and marketing
Designed and built the ZATROC platform, and leads marketing. Worked with Mohammed Sabah to refine the idea and widen its reach.
Mohammed Sabah
Co-founder · School partnerships
Built the network of schools ZATROC works with, and leads school partnerships.
Where we are
- An officially registered company in Iraq, fully self-funded (bootstrapped).
- We work with 3 schools in Najaf today.
- We are in talks with dozens of clinics to join our program.
- The platform is in development; the service has not launched yet.
- The parent, school and admin portals are built through Phase 3.
- The doctor's offline app is designed, and it is next.
- We will not launch until every phase is complete.
Our goal: 10 schools across Iraq by mid-2027.
Where we are going
These are plans we are working on, not services available today.
- Planned
A large network of partner clinics
Each clinic gets its own portal: it receives referrals, confirms visits, reports outcomes back to the student's record, and manages student discounts. The network brings new patients to independent clinics.
- Planned
The doctor's iPad app
Works inside the school without an internet connection, and syncs checkups once it is back online.
- Planned
The parent app
Results and reminders in an app installed on the phone, with push notifications.
- Planned
School portal and operations console
A portal for the school's administration, and a console where the ZATROC team runs checkups and schedules.
- Planned
From Najaf across Iraq's governorates
We start in Najaf, aim for 10 schools across Iraq by mid-2027, then expand governorate by governorate.
- Planned
Kurdish, native apps and payments
Kurdish language support, native mobile apps, and payments inside the service.
- Planned
Insight for public health
Aggregate, anonymized indicators on school students' health to help health authorities plan. Aggregate figures only; no individual student's data is ever shared.
- Planned
Jobs for doctors in every governorate
Hundreds of newly graduated doctors working inside schools in every governorate we reach.