Name: Nazreen Nizam

Guide: Prof. Girish Dalvi

Course: Interaction

 “Sakhi: Pre-Childbirth Monitoring Application

Access to healthcare facility is a fundamental problem with the vulnerable communities living in urban India. The rise in urban population below poverty line has caused alarming concerns in the last decade, one of the main concerns being access to healthcare facility in India. The access to healthcare is confined to the local knowledge of health centre or being a resident in a particular area. With a rise in urban migratory population, existing ecosystem is not able to cater to the needs of the patients.

The project focuses to  demonstrate that the mobile health intervention (in the form of decision support, reminders, educational messages and report) will have positive impact on delivery and ANC practises in health facilities possibly through the monitoring of health workers within low resource setting.

Access to healthcare facility is a fundamental problem with the vulnerable communities living in urban India. Among the vulnerable population in the country maternal well being suffer severe health risks. India is one of the countries which show significantly high rates of maternal and newborn deaths. The project aims to investigate the possibilities of a design intervention to improve maternal well being among the vulnerable communities in the country.