Exec Chat: Butterfly Network Brings Maternal Ultrasound To Underserved Regions

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+
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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 with its Butterfly iQ+ point-of-care ultrasound systems to improve maternal and fetal health in communities that usually have no access to ultrasound at all

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