
Bill Gates,Co-Chair and trustee of the Bill & Meilinda Gates Foundation,gave a adress yesterday at the mHealth Summit,an anual gathering that focuses on improving health care through mobile technology.
If every worldwide birth can be registered on cell phone then it would be possible that every childeren will recieve the proper vaccines.According
to Gates key to controlling population growth is to save the lives of childeren under 5.
There are many oppurtunities to use thecell phone in the clinic settings.He also brougt the attention of the audiance on points that cell phone technology has great potential in many areas of mHealth technology.
Gates said he would like to see a birth registration system and because it is new technology we should let 1000 new ideas blossom.
Mobile technology can make a significance difference in nothern Nigeria and nothern India where vaccination rates are below 50 percent.
Gates said he will go around and beg governments for the final million dollars needed to eradicate polio.
