The world health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital based study on 10000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour- related child and maternal death rate in sub-saharan Africa.
WHO BOLD Research group was led
by joao Paulo souza, a medical officer at the WHO department of reproductive
health and a professor of social medicine at the ribeirao preto medical school,
University of sao paulo, Brasil.
Other members of the team
includes prof. Olufemi T. Oladapo, a medical officer at the department of
reproductive health and research and others.
The software, an electronic
health solution, tagged simplified, effective, labour monitoring to action
(SELMA) tools, would be built into mobile phones, tablets and other mobile
devices. It promises to enhance the capacity of less skilled person working in
rural areas but does not replace the expertise of a specialist.
The team, at a study
dissemination meeting in Abuja, said they would have the test version ready by
November 2016, which would be used in a large study next year.
He said the tools also promises
to identify the essential elements of intra partum monitoring that trigger the
decision to use interventions aimed at preventing poor labour outcomes that
usually lead to the death of mother and child.
Oladapo on his own said the
development of the SELMA algorithm and tool is part of the BOLD project, a
larger initiative with the overall goal of reducing adverse maternal and infant
outcomes resulting from labour complications through research, design and
implementation of innovative tools.
In the future the finding from this project may contribute
to WHO guidelines on intrapartum care.
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