{"id":789,"date":"2008-08-23T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=789"},"modified":"2014-07-03T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:42:00","slug":"mobile-communication-for-rural-health-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/mobile-communication-for-rural-health-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Communication for Rural Health Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across this blog by Josh Nesbit<\/a> discussing the use of FrontlineSMS<\/a>, a tool to set up a text-based communications network, in a rural health project in Namitete, Malawi. <\/p>\n

Here’s a 7 minute long interview with one of the community health worker. At about 3:00 she starts discussing the advantage of having a cell phone: <\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

And here’s an interview with Alexander Ngalande, a nurse at St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Namitete, regarding his experience with FrontlineSMS:<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

He now uses SMS to communicate with the community health workers to coordinate his medical visits to remote villages. Previously he required a motorbike to send a message when he would be in attendance. <\/p>\n

Examples of text messages being sent:<\/p>\n

\n– A man missed his appointment with a TB officer. A CHW was texted, who reported the man had gone to Zambia for a funeral. The hospital will be notified upon his return.<\/p>\n

– An HIV support group met, and decided on new member guidelines. Via SMS, the group leader asked the hospital to print copies for the lot.<\/p>\n

– A CHW asked about ferrous sulfate dosages, so he could administer the proper amount to an anemic child.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We take this type of communication between medical staff and patient for granted. <\/p>\n

See also this BBC article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across this blog by Josh Nesbit discussing the use of FrontlineSMS, a tool to set up a text-based communications network, in a rural health project in Namitete, Malawi. Here’s a 7 minute long interview with one of the community health worker. At about 3:00 she starts discussing the advantage of having a cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4],"tags":[156,256,254,258,229,257,259,255],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-malawian","tag-cell-phone","tag-emergency-messages","tag-frontlinesms","tag-josh-nesbit","tag-mobile-technology","tag-namitete","tag-rural-health-project","tag-text-message"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-cJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}