Gates grants to support Grameen Foundation in Ghana and Uganda

Grameen Foundation has received two grants worth over $4.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support technology initiatives aimed at improving healthcare delivery in Ghana and providing information to poor farmers in Uganda. The former will support the development of mobile applications to enable healthcare workers to enhance the quality of healthcare delivery and increase the range of services available. Among other things, the grant will allow nurses to collect and transmit data more efficiently by mobile phone, which in turn will allow them to spend more time providing primary care services to patients, as well as giving the country’s health service more up-to-date and accurate information.