Mother and baby health care through mobile phones

The simple mobile phone is used to provide a wide range of health services in a number of districts in the State of Bihar, India, especially the services for pregnant women and young children.

The medical staff is responsible for advice to millions of families use the gains from the Government's health service and scientific activities, more healthy.

Ms. Sara Chamberlain in the BBC broadcaster Media Action, India said: "this was a great initiative because these services have a significant impact on the lives of people with an unprecedented scale. The personal collaboration model-community help programs for sustainable development and have an affordable price ".

According to research by BBC Media Action, all medical staff are all owned or had the use of a mobile phone,

Training course "Mobile Academy" (Mobile Academy) was opened with the aim to develop and refresh your knowledge of the medical staff of 10 acts help protect health life and enhance their communication skills.

The Lecture portion of the course is to transmit through the service IVR (Interactive Voice Response-interactive phone service information answering automatically). Thereby, students can access from any handheld mobile device.

In addition, the people who made the program also introduces a multimedia service called "mobile Kunji", provides information on health issues.

"Mobile Kunji" and "Mobile Academy" accessible from any kind of handheld mobile devices, without the need for any special software. The content of the program is popular on the 6 largest mobile firm in India, accounting for 90% of the market of mobile network in Behar.

BBC Media Action also is planning to expand the service to other districts of Bihar County and two other States are Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, India.=