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12 Ways Mobile Phones Have Transformed Africa

12 Ways Mobile Phones Have Transformed Africa

Photo: telegraph.co.uk
Photo: telegraph.co.uk

Health care

Emerging African tech startups have come up with ingenious ways of connecting patients to doctors and verifying that drugs bought from a chemist are genuine. In Nigeria, genuine medicine packs have secret codes that customers can use to verify if the drug is genuine or not. Other startups have also come up with healthcare apps such as Impilo in South Africa and Sema Doc. in Kenya.