The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device costing only £12, which runs on a mobile-phone charger and is set to be introduced in hospitals across Africa, India and Pakistan.  Invented by doctors at one of London’s leading hospitals, the device is the first in the world that can detect whether a woman is likely to go into shock after blood loss during childbirth. Using a simple traffic-light system, it can also alert healthcare workers in rural communities when a pregnant woman’s blood pressure is dangerously high – ensuring that she can be moved to hospital for life-saving care. Death in childbirth is now extremely rare in the UK and other rich nations but in developing countries it is responsible for nearly 300,000 lives lost every year.

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