Maternal Health and ICT

Did you know that maternal mortality rates (MMR) are an issue of concern and that Kenya is not going to be achieving the millennium development goal five (MDG5). About 360 women in 2010 out of 100,000 women died due to pregnancy related complications in Kenya. This figure has risen and is currently headed to about 500 women dying each year due to pregnancy complications. I do understand that we are a developing country with our own challenges but how do we tackle this problem?
The government is indeed taking this problem seriously and recently a bill was passed for free maternity services throughout the country and indeed this is a step in the right direction. Dr Boniface Chitayi does agree and states that 'the promise of free maternity services and free health services at the health centre and dispensary level is a huge boost to the march towards universal health access.' (Chitayi, 2013)
Will women really take advantage of these services? Will the MMR rates go down? I guess we will find out.



References
Chitayi B., 2013. Kenya: Delivering Free Maternity Is an Uphill Task retrieved from http://allafrica.com/stories/201304171448.html on 26th June 2013

Who wants to be a millionaire!!!

Been relying on my phone to work on publishing my blog. That way any free time I have, it's to try and write n publish on this blog. Once per week is my motto. You must have heard or at least watched who wants to be a millionaire.. Well last week I was going through interactive tools to help students with their revision and came across this game. Rather interesting. All the rules of the game apply, although instead of the insanely hard questions they ask, you replace them with your own subject all on PowerPoint. Pretty cool, huh??

Yap! Ended up being a pretty creative way to revise, n hopefully helped the students learn something. They just did an exam. Now let's wait and see how they fare.

PhD topic found

Finally decided on my PhD topic in Maternal Mortality Rates. A colleague passed on due to complications during child birth the past week. We had a talk among my female colleagues and we discovered so many women, have been loosing their lives during childbirth. I was so affected by the talk that at that point all I could think of was how sad it was for all the women's families, all the babies left without a mother. All so disheartening. 

Next morning I woke up and it dawned to me. What had been done to prevent Maternal Mortality Rates in Kenya using ICT? I embarked on a research and do far nothing as far as my research goes. I have more research to do but I finally know that I found the topic, or the topic found me.! So here begins my journey. It's very exciting and we will make it. Updates coming soon.