About Us

About Project AMBA

Project Amba is a 4-pronged approach to tackling the major cause of maternal death - post partum haemorrhage/ excessive blood loss in childbirth by interrupting the transition from safety to danger during childbirth with critical interventions.

What is Maternal Mortality

According to World Health Organization (WHO), Maternal Mortality is the annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy.

Major causes of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria

Bleeding
Obstructed and prolonged labor
Infections
Septic abortions

How Project AMBA helps to reduce maternal mortality

According to research , Excessive blood loss accounts for 54–93% of lives lost in the childbirth process. By tackling this component, the women's survival chances improve dramatically.

How to make an AMBA CALL

Four simple steps to follow

When the bleeding level of the patient is getting critical.

Open the AMBA App.

Then click on the I need a doctor

You will then receive an alert that a doctor will be on his way to you.

If you are using the ussd infrastructure.

Type in the ussd code.

It will process your request.

You will then receive a text message that a doctor is close by.

Our Goals

What we hope to achieve with AMBA

To reduce the mortality rate of pregnant women during childbirth.

To specifically curb blood loss of women in child birth.

To train medical personnel and alternative birth handlers on a standardised means of identifying women in danger.

To deploy the use of standardised approved techniques to halt/reduce blood loss.

incorporate a provided simple tool that quickly and efficiently detects excess blood loss.

To use provided technology to access critical interventions and prevent the woman from transiting from safety to danger during childbirth.

To tackle the major cause of maternal death(postpartum hemorrhage) by interrupting the transition from safety to danger during childbirth with critical interventions.