MOBILE HEALTH: With India's health services starved for funds, the mobile phone messages are a cheaper way to spread basic tips on health.
NEW DELHI: India is betting on cheap mobile phones to cut some of the world's highest rates of maternal and child deaths, as it rolls out a campaign of voice messages delivering health advice to pregnant women and mothers.
Amid a scarcity of doctors and public hospitals, India is relying on its mobile telephone network, the second largest in the world with 950 million connections, to reach places where health workers rarely go.
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