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November 15, 2013 By RwandaWire 1 Comment

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Five years ago, if you wanted to know the number of pregnant women in Musanze district (one of the districts in the Northern Province of Rwanda) you would have to manually go through the files in all 12 health centres and possibly even those in the district hospital.

Today, the use of RapidSMS – a SMS based system for faster data collection and real-time feedback – has changed all that. Today you can count the number and find the location of pregnant mothers from your laptop (or better still see the total figure on a map on the report dashboard of the Pregnancy Module of RapidSMS).

via The mobile phone – Rwanda’s key weapon in making maternal deaths history | Stories of UNICEF Innovation.

 

 

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Rwanda Tagged With: Development

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  1. Mary Jo Kelly says

    November 17, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    What a nice story!

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