M-PESA now is providing on-the-ground mobile banking services that directly improve health care for women in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan. Basically, M-PESA provides the quick cash people need for transportation to clinics and hospitals.
If a rural family without access to a bank needs cash to pay for transportation, M-PESA works with the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania to transfer money quickly and directly to transportation companies by means of a mobile phone text message. The families then pay back the small transportation loan later.
In similar fashion, M-PESA is used to support the Changamka Medical Smartcard, allowing women in Kenya who have little access to money to pay for maternity care.
New mobile tech saves lives and women’s health Africa - WNN | Women News Network
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Mobile Payments for Medical Care
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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