AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Work
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
pneumonia , Diagnosis , Tool
COUNTRY
Uganda
DESIGNED BY
Besufekad Shifferaw and Brian Turyabagye
WEBSITE
https://www.f6s.com/mama-ope
Mama-Ope
Giving children a second chance at life thus improving child mortality.
Delivery of a simple, reliable and portable tool to collect signs and symptoms of pneumonia is invaluable to society and satisfies a long-felt need in the healthcare profession. The ability to safely, easily, and accurately measure respiratory function along with lung function provides the health care professional with critical information needed to provide appropriate and timely care. For health workers who need to identify and manage (tell severity of) pneumonia in young children (6 months to 5 years) in time, MamaOpe is a revolutionary tool that provides standardized results. It is automated, easy to use and gives comprehensive results. The kit consists of a jacket and a display unit. With the mama-ope, diagnosis by a health worker takes a much shorter time period (3-4 minutes) compared to the current time of 7-12 minutes. The symptoms are captured by the vest (wearable) from the different data points on the body and the signs input by health worker.