"A mountainous country Nepal has challenging places in terms of increasing access to health information for the pregnant mothers and infant babies. Since last 8 years “Amakomaya” (Mother’s Love) initiative has deployed unique android apps to strengthen the Nepal’s health system by empowering both pregnant women and health workers with the improvement of access to need-based health information together electronic recording and reporting of client data. Till date more than 16,000 pregnant mothers and 25,000 infant babies have been tracked and benefited from the application system.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown pregnant mothers are not able to receive Antenatal Care (ANC) and babies are not able immunized. To help mother and child maintaining at least 1-meter physical distance the project has introduced time-based appointment system for the client in local clinic. Through the app, beneficiaries can reserve their time-based appointment. This feature will help to reduce the crowed in health facilities and outreach clinics in urban and rural area. Also the app have direct access to the toll free number 16600100046 with the partnership of Midwifery Association of Nepal and Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital, Thapathali, Kathmandu."

http://www.amakomaya.com

• Nepal (Republic of)

Yes, the project is replicate in developing countries like Nepal. It could be replicated in South Asian Region as well as African countries.

The project is sustainable because it directly strength the National health system. So it is high priority of every country government. Till now most of the local government of Nepal have invested for this project from their own financial resources. Specially the government have invested for the android mobile devices and implementation cost. Yet government have not invested cost for development of application and hosting of the application.

The program has developed online portal www.amakomaya.com which is focused to connect pregnant women, Female community health volunteers and city doctors to provide online as well as offline information for registered pregnant women during their pregnancy period. These all contents are all about how their baby is growing up and how her body is changing. Moreover, the content is useful for giving important instruction and tips for pregnant women.