The announcement came at a recent mHealth and eHealth stakeholders conference hosted by the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation and was attended by the “who’s-who” in Health, NGOs, Donors and technology companies.
KimMNCHip is a national scale effort to provide affordable and accessible mobile health solutions to all pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 everywhere in Kenya. It is run by a cross-sector partnership between the Government of Kenya, Safaricom, World Vision, Care, AMREF, and NetHope.
- strengthen Kenya’s community health system/referral services by linking households, community health workers, and health facilities in a real-time health information system that tracks pregnancies, births, and maternal deaths and provides updates and reminders for timely interventions;
- provide push and pull target-based health messaging for mothers and household members; and
- promote and popularize mSavings and eVouchers for mothers and related family members.
Beginning with Kenya, the project aims to reach an estimated 6 million mothers. It targets mothers and children under 5, health personnel, and health decision makers through real time information sharing and communication of appointments, alerts and reminders. The project links the end to end process from mother, community health worker, heath facility and back with data aggregation at a national level.
