“Before we could have four deaths [of children] in a week or 15 days, but now we record maybe one death,” says Blessings Juma, head of the pediatric ward at Mangochi District Hospital in Malawi. The health worker attributes this change to IMPALA, a monitoring system with artificial intelligence designed to detect early deterioration in hospitalized patients and thus reduce child mortality in low-resource clinics.

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“Antes podíamos tener cuatro muertes [de niños] en una semana o 15 días, pero ahora registramos quizás una muerte”. Quien habla es Blessings Juma, encargada de la sala pediátrica del Hospital de Distrito de Mangochi, en Malaui. La sanitaria atribuye este cambio a IMPALA, un sistema de monitorización con inteligencia artificial diseñado para detectar de forma temprana el deterioro de los pacientes hospitalizados y reducir así la mortalidad infantil en clínicas con escasos recursos.

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Veronica Akabondo had worked from dawn to dusk for months on her farm in southern Zambia and was confident she would have a plentiful maize harvest. But one morning she woke up and found it all gone. The culprit? A herd of hungry elephants.

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