A look back: Our pilot launch in Sissala East, Ghana
Moving Health spent over a year working with community leaders, partners, and the Ghana Health Service to design an ambulance specifically for the context of Northern Ghana. We announced the launch of our pilot in 2021, providing access to emergency transportation to over 10,000 people. Our ambulances are redefining emergency services from the ground up, connecting families to care when they need it most. To date we have taken almost 300 patients to the hospital, reduced referral times by over 50%, and drastically increased the number of ambulances and ambulance rides in the district.
We envision a world that allows every family to be connected to the healthcare that they need, when they need it.
Emergency Transport Today
Transportation is one of the top two reasons people around the world are unable to receive medical care. The funds and vehicles do not exist in rural areas to navigate the terrain to the clinic without exacerbating health issues.
Our Story
Moving Health was born from a collaboration of engineers and community leaders, and approach our solutions with the same mindset. We apply engineering principles within local contexts, focusing on co-creating solutions that improve community outcomes and individual growth.
Community driven design.
Moving Health focuses on a human centered design approach to healthcare. We work with communities to design the products and systems that people actually want.
We listen -- to traditional birth attendants and their challenges, to the health directorate and the gaps they see, to pregnant women and what they are most worried about. We are dedicated to taking the resources and expertise that our team has access to, and use them to amplify the voices of the communities with which we work. We have built an organization that manufactures locally, hires locally, and focuses on bringing diverse opinions to the table.
With this approach, we are confident that the ambulances and systems that we build actually fit the context that our teams are working in, and actually tackle the challenges people face every day.
