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# Bombay Hospital Bot 🤖
Welcome to the **Bombay Hospital Bot** project! This is a Flask-based web application that simulates a conversational chatbot aimed at guiding users through a basic medical diagnostic process. It asks the user for their name, symptoms, and how long they've been experiencing them, then provides relevant precautions and offers doctor suggestions. This bot also enables users to book appointments with suggested doctors based on their symptoms.
## Features 🌟
- 🏥 **Symptom Diagnosis**: The bot engages users in a step-by-step diagnostic process to gather symptoms and severity levels.
- 💡 **Precaution Suggestions**: Provides useful precautions based on the entered symptoms.
- 🩺 **Doctor Recommendations**: Suggests specialists according to the user’s condition.
- 📅 **Appointment Booking**: Allows users to book appointments with doctors directly through the chat.
- 🔄 **Interactive Chatbox**: A dynamic chatbox interface that enhances user interaction.
## Technologies Used 🛠️
- **Backend**: Flask (Python)
- **Frontend**: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
- **Data**: Pandas (for handling CSV files containing symptom data)
- **Timezone Handling**: `pytz` for managing timezones
- **API**: RESTful API endpoints using Flask
- **Libraries**:
- `pandas` for reading and processing symptom data
- `datetime` for time-based greeting generation
## How It Works ⚙️
1. The bot greets the user and asks for their name.
2. The user is prompted to provide their symptom.
3. Based on the provided symptom, the bot asks how long the user has been experiencing it.
4. The bot randomly selects a symptom from a dataset and provides precautions related to it.
5. The bot suggests a relevant doctor for the condition and offers to book an appointment.
## File Structure 📁
```bash
📦 Bombay-Hospital-Bot/
Bombay-Hospital-Chatbot
┣ 📂MasterData
┃ ┣ 📜Symptom_severity.csv
┃ ┗ 📜symptom_precaution.csv
┣ 📂static
┃ ┣ 📂css
┃ ┃ ┣ 📜chatbot.css
┃ ┃ ┗ 📜style.css
┃ ┣ 📂iMG
┃ ┣ 📂js
┃ ┃ ┣ 📜chatbot.js
┃ ┃ ┗ 📜main.js
┣ 📂templates
┃ ┣ 📜aboutUs.html
┃ ┣ 📜contact.html
┃ ┗ 📜index.html
┣ 📜app.py
┗ 📜README.md
To run this project locally, follow these steps:
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Clone the Repository:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/bombay-hospital-bot.git cd bombay-hospital-bot
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Create and activate a virtual environment:
python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`
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Install Dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Run the Flask App:
python app.py
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Open your browser and navigate to
http://127.0.0.1:5000/
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- Integrating a database to store user conversations and booking history.
- Adding natural language processing (NLP) to better understand user inputs.
- Expanding symptom datasets to cover a wider range of conditions.
- Enabling email or SMS notifications for appointment reminders.
Feel free to fork this repository, make improvements, and submit pull requests! Contributions are always welcome.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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