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Philips and UNFPA collaborate to transform lives in Mandera County, Kenya – announce plans to implement Kenya’s second “Community Life Centre”

The Community Life Center in Mandera is expected to provide the local area with modern, integrated high quality health services, access to energy, education, employment opportunities, commercial activities, and a secure social activity hub

Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) (www.Philips.com), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (http://www.UNFPA.org) has today revealed its plans to inaugurate a Community Life Center (CLC) in Mandera, a County in North-Eastern Kenya with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality ratio - 3,795 per 100,000 live births(1).…

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    • Students at work in the Maker Space, which will be one of the locations where the prototyping will take place
    • Mukuru Health Center, a typical primary healthcare unit in a low-resource setting for which the project will develop innovations
    • Philips Community Life Center in Githurai, where integrated care is provided, will be one of the locations where the innovations from the project will be validated
    • UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project
    • UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project
    • UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project
    • UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project
    • UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project
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UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with partners, launch the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project

In developing countries such as Kenya, maternal, newborn and child mortality rates remain unacceptably high

UNICEF and The Philips Foundation (http://www.philips-foundation.com), together with Concern Worldwide, Maker and Gearbox, have launched the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project, to help save lives and improve the health of pregnant women and children in Kenya. Under the leadership of the Government of Kenya and the Project’s Steering Committee…