HIFA 2015 – the global NGO aiming to make a world where no one is dying due to lack of knowledge has come up with a a smart goal to achieve it.
It wants that “By 2015, at least one telecoms provider, in at least one country, will endorse the vision of Healthcare Information For All, and will provide free access to essential healthcare knowledge in the local language, pre loaded on all new mobile phones they may sell and freely downloadable to all those who already have a mobile phone.”
The idea called as the mHIFA smart goal is specifically “concerned with the health information needs of citizens, parents and children, in recognition of the huge (and largely unrealized) potential of mobile phones to meet basic healthcare information needs of citizens, parents and children. “
It builds up on the concept that in in low and middle income countries the top causes of mortality- respiratory infections,diarrhoeal diseases, HIV/AIDS,ischaemic heart disease, malaria, cerebrovascular disease,prematurity ,low birth weight,birth asphyxia and Neonatal infections- all of these can be prevented and/or managed more effectively if the parent, family member, care giver or health worker “know what to do, and when and where to seek help. “
This is one idea which might be a game changer especially in nations like India where mobile phones have huge penetration-even in zoned where healthcare facilities are available.
“quotes ” from HIFA website .
