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The Smart Paper Technology (SPT) 📄📲 solution connects EPI 💉 and ANC 🤰🏽services together, creating a unique link between a mother and her child. With the introduction of new maternal vaccines, this will, among all, enable efficient monitoring of pregnancy outcomes and reporting of AESIs. In line with the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine work, more than ❗️1,300❗️children are now linked to their mothers through the SPT solution in one of the busiest sites in The Gambia 🇬🇲 Congratulations 👏

The Gambia 🇬🇲 is the very first country, where a link between a mother and her child has been established using the paper-to-digital solution 📄📲 Smart Paper Technology (SPT), and where existing paper registers were replaced for the whole primary healthcare in one of the busiest hospitals. This gives a unique opportunity to not only follow the woman through her pregnancy journey and her children through immunisation, but also any other future visits - creating comprehensive, longitudinal medical records. Representatives from 5 different countries (Nepal 🇳🇵, Bangladesh 🇧🇩, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Tanzania 🇹🇿 and Uganda 🇺🇬) visited Bundung Maternal & Child Health Hospital to see SPT in action, and strategise on how to implement the technology in their own settings. Special thanks to the hospital staff, the Ministry of Health - The Gambia, and the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine team, with whom we have made this successful. 👏

Shifo participated in the Swedish Philanthropy Summit 2023 to share our perspective on how external aid can be made more effective and impactful. Money is important, and, how it is spent and who benefits from it, is even more important to consider, especially for improving health service delivery. Shifo believes that more of the funds should go directly to the health centres and to the health workers, if we want to dramatically improve performance of the health service delivery and keep it at the high level. Video of the whole summit can be watched here: https://lnkd.in/djhCSJKM 

Congratulations to the Ministry of Health - The Gambia, Bundung Hospital and Shifo Team, for achieving this milestone. For the first time, Smart Paper Technology has been implemented to digitise patient records for Outpatient Department in Bundung Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in The Gambia. This will bring major benefits to the health system in The Gambia, such as: 1. No more manual data entry to DHIS2 2. No more manual disease surveillance  3. No more manual data entry to National Health Insurance System 4. Faster verification and faster payments for OPD indicators 5. Automatic detection of missed opportunities for vaccination 6. Targeted detection of malaria, HIV and TB cases 7. And much more We will be learning from this implementation in coming months, and, fine-tuning the solution.

We are dedicated to raising awareness about the strategies and challenges involved in providing healthcare in refugee settings, including limited infrastructure, remote locations, and poor health outcomes. Ms. Sukanya Borthakur, Community Health Advisor for Medical Teams International, highlights the critical work done in refugee settings and explores how SPT can help overcome these challenges. Our primary focus is on delivering health services to refugee populations, addressing issues such as malnutrition and poor maternal and child health outcomes. This conversation sheds light on the challenges faced in refugee settings and how SPT can play a crucial role in overcoming them. To listen to the full recording, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dCRnsAQU If you want to learn more about how SPT facilitates the digitisation of routine data and promotes sustainable results-based financing, visit our website at https://www.shifo.org/ or reach out to us directly. Stay tuned for the next episode of the Shifo series: Identifying Headaches.  Together, let's make a positive impact on healthcare in refugee settings!