PROFOH GHANA- Mobile Phone Revolutionizing Health Care In Africa

PROFOH local doctors has over 15 years tele-consultaion experience in Ghana and Nigeria, this system of  mobile technology is also revolutionizing the future of healthcare by improving access in the continent, which is the home to some of the worst healthcare systems in the world. Most deaths in Africa occur due to lack of accessible care. However, one thing a large percentage of Africans have access to is mobile network. This opens up a path to reaching Africa’s underserved population. Mobile technologies hold the promise to change how care is given and received, as well as cut costs while improving accessibility.When a 27-year-old pregnant mother of three, Faith Kuwornu was infected with cholera in 2014, she consulted health officials in Ghana through her mobile phone. “When I first called the community health nurse at dawn, she offered first aid on the telephone before she arrived at my house with another nurse an hour later. I was treated with Oral Rehydration Salts and Zinc tablets and rushed to the hospital because of my pregnancy. They saved my life and the unborn baby,” she says. All she did was call a nurse.Teleconsultation – an innovation to quicken surveillance response and provide prompt health care to people in remote areas and other places cut off by the effects of climate change such as extreme flooding.