Democratising healthcare delivery: Maternal health gets an AI boost

Despite medical advances, maternal mortality remains a global concern, with 287,000 women dying in pregnancy and childbirth across the world in 2020, according to United Nations agencies. In India alone, a woman dies in childbirth every 15 minutes. What’s striking is that most of these deaths are avoidable if women receive timely intervention.

Many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have leveraged the wide-spread availability of mobile phones and launched health programmes to deliver information via voice or text to beneficiaries in underserved communities, with maternal and infant health being a key area.