Vodacom and Mondia have partnered to launch ‘Mum & Child’ throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Mum & Child is a free-of-charge cell well being intervention service that gives subscribers with maternal, neonatal and little one well being info designed to encourage good well being practices amongst pregnant ladies, moms, companions and caregivers.
Mondia creates Mum & Child’s tailor-made content material within the native language and consists of professional articles, movies and information-sharing SMS messages.
Mum & Child’s future enhancements within the DRC will present interactive instruments together with a due-date calculator, an immunisation calendar, medicine reminder, medicine security info and different well being instruments and companies.
“Accessing healthcare companies in Africa might be difficult, and Mum & Child offers a free and handy means of accessing instantaneous professional recommendation the place it’s most wanted,” says Dr Amadeo Rahmann, Mondia Group CEO.
“The Mum & Child service leverages Mondia’s intensive networks and experience in content material manufacturing and curation, and we anticipate it to proceed to ship constructive social influence wherever it’s rolled out.”
Vodacom DRC’s spokesperson says that “Mum & Child has change into our flagship well being and wellness model specializing in motherhood. We’re pleased with the way in which wherein it contributes to our imaginative and prescient of constructing communities, bringing well being options to extra lives and selling good well being outcomes.”
Launched in South Africa in 2017, the Mum & Child service had 1.2 million registered subscribers as of August 2018. The subsequent rollout of the service will happen throughout Lesotho later this month.
