For the last two months, WE CARE Solar has been been the subject of presentations at the Unite for Sight conference at Yale Univeristy, a Safe Motherhood conference at Harvard School of Public Health, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Humanitarian Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. A new 5 minute promotional film discussing the challenge of maternal mortality and the WE CARE Solar approach to improving emergency obstetric care can be found by accessing our facebook page or clicking here. You can also paste the following address in your browser (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1029594039096&oid=128083160168&__a=1). (Note: You will need to have a facebook account for this to work.)
In Nigeria and Zimbabwe, PHCs Leverage Renewable Energy to Improve Maternal Healthcare
During Dr Laura Stachel’s postgraduate research on maternal mortality at Gambo Sawaba General Hospital (GSGH) in Kofan Gayan, Kaduna State, in 2008, she noticed a connection between the lack of energy supply and high maternal mortality at the health centre.