In Ethiopia, mobile phones help make childbirth safer

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In Ethiopia, mobile phones help make childbirth safer

AFP

In Ethiopia where almost 9 in every 10 women give birth at home after pregnancies with little or no medical support, a mobile phone app is coming to the rescue with lifesaving guidelines when things go wrong. The “Safe Delivery App,” created by the Danish development organization the Maternity Foundation, provides simplified instructions and animated films for midwives or birth attendants to deal with emergency situations, be it hemorrhaging, birthing complications, resuscitating newborns, or infections. The initiative is proving even more vital in rural areas, where the only help many mothers get is from family members or a local woman.

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