Samsung Elecronics has donated 3000 smartphones – Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo which worth around USD $1,000,000 to combat and eradicate the spread of the the deadly EBOLA virus in West Africa. Samsung is no stranger to the Ebola cause having donated towards the same cause in Ghana, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The company announced on tuesday, that it would channel the smartphones through United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) and would be used in the Human Connecivity project. The Human connectivity project is a UN IT project which utilises mobile devices to provide humanitarian support in disaster areas.
Samsung Donates $1,000,000 Worth Smartphones to Combat Ebola in West Africa.
According to Samsung, 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. By installing the UN’s Smart Health Pro mobile application, medical staff can utilize the smartphones to treat patients and collect medical data, while quarantined patients can contact their families using the devices.
All the donated smartphones would be destroyed once the virus outbreak has subsided.
Just last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $25 million to the Ebola cause – to contain and eradicate the deadly virus. The virus as of yet has no vaccines but there has been various vaccines reported to be in the works and some have been announced would reach the continent in 2015.
Recently, Nigeria has been declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) but the virus is still prevailing in some countries in West Africa, Africa and it has even spread across some countries in the World with cases in Spain, US and Britain.
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