I've decided to shadow
Josh Nesbit, the man responsible for starting FrontlineSMS:Medic and Hope Phones. I'm now following him on Twitter, as well as the RSS feed for his blog and the RSS feed for FrontlineSMS:Medic
To sum up, FrontlineSMS:Medic and Hope Phones are not-for-profit efforts to get cell phones to volunteer healthcare workers in Africa, to increase the number of patients and improve emergency response in dire situations where the nearest hospital can be as much as 100 miles away.
Being a major in Nursing, health care is an important topic to me, and seeing the effort made by him to streamline and improve understaffed hospitals in Africa has inspired me. This program enables off-site volunteers to coordinate treatments and emergency services with the doctors and nurses in the hospital, which greatly increases the number of patients that can be treated in a single day.
So please if you can, donate your old phone or ask your friend to donate their old phones to Hope Phones so that Josh and his team can continue improving health care in Africa.
If you are unable to read the words in the picture, this hospital is staffed by two doctors and four-hundred volunteers who travel in the one-hundred mile radius treating over a quarter of a million patients.
Here's a simple diagram of one of the hospitals FrontlineSMS:Medic covers.
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