Rabat- Samsung announced on October 21, 2014, that it will donate 3,000 smartphones at a cost of about $1 million to help fight the battle against the Ebola virus in Africa.
According to Samsung’s website, the smartphones will be donated via the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) as part of the UN’s humanitarian connectivity project, which relies on technological devices as part of providing humanitarian support in the places affected by Ebola.
The smart phones will be equipped by UN’s Smart Health Pro mobile application that will be used in collecting data and treating patients, and they will be used to keep isolated patients in touch with their families.
“The donated GALAXY S3 Neo smartphones will be used in 60 Ebola medical clinics in the three worst-hit African countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” according to the website. The smartphones will be destroyed once the outbreak of the virus has controlled.
Edited by Elisabeth Myers
