OMOMI Project UPDATED January 6th, 2015
OMOMI aims to improve childhealth by empowering mothers with basic maternal and child healthcare knowledge in Nigeria using mobile healthcare solutions.
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Dr Emmanuel Owobu is the co-founder of MOBicure, a medical doctor, works for mHELP as a mhealth consultant and was awarded United Nations online Volunteer along with the Delta Women team for their work in rural communities in Nigeria. He is a Director at mHealthAfrica3.0 and Chief Medical Officer of DokterGratis West Africa. He is a certified healthcare innovator and entrepreneur from Duke University provided by the awarding-winning Coursera.
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Idea
126pt
Evaluation
1pt
Collaboration
116pt
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282pt
OMOMI aims to improve childhealth by empowering mothers with basic maternal and child healthcare knowledge in Nigeria using mobile healthcare solutions.
The project looks to provide an easy to use and accessible platform for parents and caregivers to monitor their children's health. The OMOMI Project looks to tackle immunization, parent education and under-5 malnutrition by providing mobile health se
Thank you very much. Duly noted
Thanks Duncan. It's something we hope to achieve. That is, to be able to integrate the app with the current healthcare system and strategy in the country. For now, we are working hard to improve of marketing and publicity drive within the country.
As a tool for accountability of public healthcare services, there will definitely be the need for the government to get involved or at least the app should be hugely popular amongst the target users so much so that it will be an avenue for mothers to speak out about their current healthcare nedds and how to make it better.
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