Africa: Wind-Up Heart Rate Monitor Will Help Save Africa's Babies

A wind-up fetal heart rate monitor that will help curb the high rates of preventable infant deaths in Africa is being further developed and commercialised in a partnership between PowerFree Education Technology, a South African non-profit organisation, and global technology firm, Royal Philips.

The collaboration will further develop, test and commercialise the wind-up Doppler Ultrasound Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Philips announced in a statement last week.

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