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Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour

Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour

by The Daily Eye Team May 24 2016, 10:46 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths recorded every year according to the UN’s children Fund, UNICEF.
That is what Bernice Dapaah, a social entrepreneur is seeking to change. Bernice has been running the Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), since 2008 and recently ventured into turning cheap tricycles into makeshift ambulances that could navigate some of Ghana’s dangerous roads to convey women in labour from hard-to-reach communities to health centres.

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