A $100 million initiative will provide health workers in India and Uganda with smartphones and tablets to access affordable data analytic tools that help save mothers’ and babies’ lives.
76-year-old Harjinder Singh helps save lives in Delhi, India, using his auto-rickshaw as a free ambulance service to transport road accident victims straight to the nearest hospitals.
The mortality rate for children aged five and under has dropped from nearly 10 million deaths two decades ago to around half the amount in 2017 - even with the increase in world population by more than one billion people.
Three Indonesian students have invented a pocket-sized pinger to detect the location of victims of natural disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes.
