This $20 Life Saver Can Rescue 70,000 Mother's Around The Globe A Year
It also alerts the health care authorities in rural areas when the blood pressure of a pregnant women goes high, tripping the emergency measures of transferring her to the nearby clinic.
It requires minimal training to check the patient on, the device measures blood pressure and pulse to calculate the amount of risk.
This device helps the doctors from risking the patient’s life by preliminary precautions that will help, as normally during labor the body goes into shock where the mother can no longer stabilize on the blood loss and infection.
With the lack of blood in the body to supply to the vital organs, they stop responding which leads to high blood pressure. This situation in pregnancy signals preeclampsia, a fatal condition to both the mother and the baby that might prove deadly.
A grant of $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has accelerated the production of the device. The experts are quite confident of its functioning and express their prediction that around 25 percent or 70,000 for a year of pregnancy deaths can be prevented.
From the production lot around 2500 were shipped out to the hospitals in Pakistan, Mozambique, India and Nigeria.
The team players in its making are quite proud of their device which took 20 weeks of their time. Professor Andrew Sherman is quite satisfied with his teams work, as the time is not wasted but put in successfully to save a mother’s life which in itself is quite priceless.
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