London, 12 sep (EFE).-the low cost of mobile phones has enabled to develop health distance, programmes aimed at saving the lives of women and children without resources, in the third world countries, according to a study led by the UN.
The health of networks of mobile application is one of the creative endeavors of the report “Innovation for each woman and each child”, which today publishes the scientific journal “The Lancet” and has been promoted by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the Norwegian, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
The text presents a series of “ideas that have been successful” in improving health care in developing countries for development, a goal that presents more challenges than ever before due to the global economic crisis, explained to Efe Tore Godal, Adviser special of Stoltenberg and a member of the Working Group of the UN has developed the report.
“Creativity is very important in a time of crisis.” “We need to find sustainable solutions for which we do not have to increase aid,” said Godal.
“Fascinating mobile is so the poor can acquire and use.” “Private companies can do business, and at the same time, it is a great opportunity to build better sanitation”, pointed.
Mobile telephony allows a medical care at a distance in areas of difficult access, but also facilitates the pedagogy in the field of health in populations that are not accustomed to go to the doctor.
One of the initiatives listed in the study is sending pregnant women of reminders that come to the hospital periodically via text.
More than 350,000 women die each year in developing countries due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, and nearly three million children do not exceed the month of life, so Godal considered that this vulnerable population need improvements in systems of health.
“It is very important that mothers and children have access to health services both public and private,” said Godal, which highlighted the efforts of a chain of hospitals in the India who has managed to lower one-third the price that has to pay a mother to light.
“They are better organized and do everything possible to save to provide a good service at an affordable price.” “The poorest women still not can afford it, but those who can only afford $ 90”, explained the Chief of the first Minister Norwegian.
The UN Working Group has noted how initiatives promoted by private companies to improve the health of women have completed impacting positively on its results.
“The companies that distributed good health information among their employees who are pregnant, for example, notice how reduce absenteeism,” described Godal. EFE
