SDG 3 Other | Safaricom | CFO Coalition for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

SDG 3: Good health & wellbeing

Investment type

Other

Description

Daktari Smart is a three-year programme that aims to use telemedicine technology to link and provide treatment to 32,400 children in six hard-to-reach counties in Kenya.

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In partnership with Gertrude’s Children Hospital, the M-PESA Foundation launched the regional Daktari Smart telemedicine programme, at the Suba Sub-County Hospital. This is part of a larger telemedicine initiative that targets over 32,000 children in Homabay, Samburu, Baringo and Lamu daily.

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