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Exec Chat: Butterfly Network Brings Maternal Ultrasound To Underserved Regions

 
• By Reed Miller

Medtech Insight talked to Sachita Shah, Butterfly Network's director of global health, and John Martin, the company's chief medical officer, to learn more about how point-of-care ultrasound can benefit rural, underserved communities in Sub-Saharan Africa by helping to reduce maternal mortality and childbirth-related complications.

Needle Viz™, with the new Butterfly iQ+
• Source: Butterfly Network, Inc.

Butterfly Network is expanding its effort to bring point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) technology to underserved markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and around the world following an encouraging experience in Kenya. 

Supported by a $5m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Butterfly supplied 1,000 health care workers in Kenya...

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