Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Little Info about Ugandan Healthcare

With Selvan's connections in Kumi, Uganda is an easy starting point in developing specs for the lamp. Here's some links that Selvan dug up from WHO:

Interesting tidbits:
4% of all deaths in Uganda are women right around the time they give birth
42% of births are done by skilled personnel
30 million people live in Uganda
There are 19,000 nurses and midwives (1 per 1,600 people)
There are 2,200 physicians (1 per 14,000 people)

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