Gambia to deploy SMS technology in health project

“The SMS for health programme is a six month pilot project being implemented by the Health ministry in collaboration with International Health Partners UK, Vodafone, Pfizer and Mats soft. The project’s aims are: to collect information on weekly basis from all government health facilities on treatment, medicine stock levels and medicine expiry dates with objective to put in place an electronic medicine and treatment monitoring system using mobile SMS. The HMIS has been transformed in the past two years to provide credible and reliable data for planning and decision making.”

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