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Ugandan medics deploy AI to stop women dying after childbirth

Uganda mother and baby

Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Ugandan doctors are giving new mothers artificial intelligence-enabled devices to remotely monitor their health in a first-of-its-kind study aiming to curb thousands of preventable maternal deaths across Africa, medics and developers said. Doctors at Mbarara Hospital in western Uganda will give devices to more than 1,000 women who have undergone caesarean […]