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“See your Baby” project wins Aspen Ideas Award

Awards and Appointments Innovation Research

The “Ona-Matoto-Lako” project (“see your baby” in Swahili) will take lifesaving antenatal care to pregnant women in remote parts of low & middle income countries, where women can see their baby free of charge using a mobile ultrasonagraphy bus.

Chrystelle Opope Oyaka Wedi from the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, has won funding to pilot a life saving project for pregnant women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

The “Ona-Matoto-Lako” project (“see your baby” in Swahili) will take lifesaving antenatal care to pregnant women in remote parts of low & middle income countries, where women can see their baby free of charge using a mobile ultrasonagraphy bus.

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