Can you guess one of the most crucial issues in the provision of medical care to members of some villages in Tanzania? Maybe you'd say doctors, knowledge etc etc, but would you have guessed a $3.50 bus ticket? Well this is one of the more prominent issues that has caused for the lack of health services to some women and children. But with the help of a new $15 mobile phone developed by Vodafone that allows for a text message to be sent to the hospital, where upon money is wired back to the village for the bus ticket for the patients. Just as with Text4Baby, the usage of cell phones, which can be rendered inexpensive, is assisting in the spreading of health services and health knowledge to those who would otherwise go without.
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