Mobile Midwife (MM)

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Joining Up Ghana's Healthcare To Save Lives

Fiona Graham | BBC News | July 14, 2014

[Giving birth] kills more mothers and babies than anywhere else in the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)...In Ghana, for example, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) declined by 49% between 1990 and 2013 to 380 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013 - but this still leaves some way to go to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of 185...

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Mobile Health Around The Globe: Ghana - Changing The Very Essence Of Healthcare

Rhona Finkel | Health Tech Hatch | August 13, 2012

Ghana faces some serious challenges when it comes to healthcare delivery.
As the Austrian Red Cross points out, although the country has a population of nearly 23.5 million people, there are only 1,439 health care facilities, unevenly distributed across the country. Read More »

Mobile Midwifery Delivers Health To Ghanaian Moms

Suzanne Skees | Womens eNews | August 15, 2014

One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time...

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