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In Rwanda, A Phone Text Can Save A Baby

In Rwanda, A Phone Text Can Save A Baby

by The Daily Eye Team May 25 2016, 9:45 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme in isolated rural areas. The scheme has already helped slash infant and maternal mortality rates. Marceline Mwubahamana, three months pregnant at 31, doesn't even have to leave home to have her details logged into a national database at the health ministry.

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