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Table 1 Results of use of Text4life platform: June 2019 to December 2020

From: Texting for life: a mobile phone application to connect pregnant women with emergency transport and obstetric care in rural Nigeria

Indicator

Okpekpe

Ewatto

Total

Number of registered participants

774

846

1620

Number (%) reporting pregnancy complications in Text4Life

25 (3.2)

31 (3.7)

56 (3.5)

Number (%) transported to PHCs

23 (92.0)

28 (90.3)

51 (91.1)

Number (%) received and treated in PHCs

23 (100)

28 (100)

51 (100)

Number (%) referred to other facilities

2 (8.7)

3 (10.7)

5 (9.8)

Number (%) of maternal deaths

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Number (%) of perinatal deaths

1 (0.1)

3 (0.4)

4 (0.2)

  1. Ewatto (Esan Southeast) and Okpekpe (Etsako East) LGAs, Edo State