KarunaNews Story

Along the rolling hills of northern Ghana as a vehicle zoomed by, sirens announced an emergency. The motorized tricycle designed by Moving Health, a startup aiming to transform maternal health care in rural Ghana, was carrying a pregnant woman in a medical emergency. The maternal mortality rate in Ghana is more than four times the international target, in part due to transportation issues in rural communities. Moving Health co-founder and CEO Emily Young first developed the idea 10 years ago at MIT D-lab, where researchers work with student engineers on practical solutions to global poverty. Moving Health now has fleets of ambulance tricycles produced at a tenth of the cost of traditional ambulances, manufactured locally in Ghana, serves more than 100,000 people across rural Ghana, and have cut the average time it takes to get to the hospital in half.