Uganda: The Jacket That Detects Pneumonia

[Monitor] Six months of coughing and a debilitating fever was too much for Olivia Koburongo's 86-year-old grandmother, whose body had been weakened by other age-related conditions. My grandmother, the 26-year-old says, died of pneumonia that could not easily be diagnosed because of a lack of proper diagnostic equipment. "For six months she kept taking wrong medicine. Several health workers in different health facilities had diagnosed her with malaria. Pneumonia was discovered after a postmortem was conducted when sh

Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 26, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news