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the exploring modern lifestyles and the editor rings, where it has history left its traces, meeting people hearing their dreams. ready to me during this week on d w. this is d, dublin years, africa coming up on the program. the world health organization says africans are living longer. but how is this happening? one factor is advancements in tech. they're helping to improve critical health services for women. in cameroon, we take a look at one innovation and hear from it's developer. also coming up more south african homes are plunged into darkness for hours on end every day. as the country's electricity crisis worsens. but why is the power great crumbling in this african power house?
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plus after 7 months at home, students in nigeria demand the reopening of their universities. but the lecturers and the government remain at odds and we visit a doctor in uganda who even after losing his sight to an eye infection, has never given up the blind g. b, still driven by the passion for his profession. ah, i'm told me or lady got welcome to the program. you can never really have too much of life and good health and right now, africans are living longer, healthier lives. the world health organization recently announced that healthy life expectancy on the continent has gone up from 46 years at the start of the millennium to 56 years in 2019. that's almost 10 extra years in which
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a person lives in a good state of health. a key element is improving health care for women, advancements in health services like cancer screening could lead to better and timely treatment. the world health organization estimated some 700000 cancer deaths in africa in 2020 in cameron, one physician has come up with a device that helps to ease cervical cancer. screening for women di dublin years africa's blaze. a young reports from you own day s nova sir, has regular checkups. surgical cancer can be cheated even get there early and detection, the screening was more cleanings like this one in the capitol, yolande. that used to be a problem. there's no special his doctor, or any cancer screening machine. this smart device has changed all, but this is the 1st time sorrow has tried all the locally made. keep up blissfully
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. b stands michelle from out of the screening. i feel totally fine. awesome. that's very different to the previous test that i've done from on the speculum was very different to the mazda. the one they used before was often very uncomfortable, and income for the blue flemish noise ammunitions used them at all to call a speculum to one of the vagina. many women find that invasive and distressing. have walker sheer finding out about the smart device for the 1st time is made up of a mobile fool and a smart school that is less affordable. irene can screen her patience with a smart keith in all the 10 minutes. this is a measure relief or people like her walk in mother's health facilities across the central african nation. dave like a level, but it is true that we do not have a specialist here at the but tanks to this equipment. we can solicit the help of
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a specialist from a distance who can help with diagnosing a patient can and provide better care for the patients when they appease our survey . the past lukewarm body will be part of the party diesel. the new thing was developed by dr. tucker, so just a 4 year old cameron and medical doctor and entrepreneur. they controlled the device since data in real time and legless his arrival in minutes. dead formation is lit, assessed remotely hooked by so schanzer. with these objective is that all remained the mother were to leave the mother where they were found. the mother guess was economic levels can have access to our civic against the screen at the point of care with dr. tuckahoe to launch is smart class, ask union innovation across the continent by next year. at the same time, he continues to develop other dec solutions that can solve articles, health meets and now joined by that innovator you saw in the report just now,
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dr. conrad hankle from yonder in cameroon. welcome to d. w at news africa. and now can you tell us more about this smart speculum and how it's different from the traditional approach are going to tell me father. so to give an idea of the context, right? so this is mark quincy vision. 2 very old, one is called the pickle breast, or go or give up or one or 2 years old. and you know that cole, scott, is like a microscope from a provider either on a like a computer screen. so 1st of all, this corpuscle device very high, and it's not really available in developing and placing any chris cargo and workers
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like what we decided to do to build around and, you know, based on burns corporate in this working all of us into one into one portable devices can adapt to the people who also areas on the move to easily use animals to provide a form in the area. so basically incorporate just pick a little article post and i believe you've got 2 samples to show us how, how they compare just give an idea of what market will look like for me because what it is, i think we mentioned this device, right? so if i, for a house where that's like so the web and then you press on on suitcases back. or the vision is sometimes uncomfortable in some mission. but sometimes it cannot per funny visual like so bright. we decided to read over and come,
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or we spark on device, which is like piece was moving. company is a smaller size and from the church covered also, i mean more comfortable for the women on each of the service before the alec or provider. and so bring it idea of being offered and they cope with scope for g. is that now with this device able to visualize smartphone are instead of the high cost the lcd screen, which is very busy but yeah. okay, that's interesting. so, so you've sort of simplified the whole process. is this a world 1st? yeah, of course it's the 1st time you move the right one and come in with a possible corpuscle, which one of them article scope. and by then congratulations on
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this innovation. you also have breast cancer screening that you carry out as well. yeah, i'm in the objective of the day project. just maybe i can get it to most common concepts and so you can also see about this book or can i come from what i'm 50 percent of all turns us or we can, i can book of them then that's a huge decrease and you are able to sort of use technology to bring the services closer to people wherever they may be. but of course their issues to do with electricity power outages of those a problem where you are. but of course, i mean we're talking to course on the context of course is very difficult, complex talking about how much is the supply as well as you can make over connectivity as well. but of course, co creation design will go. we try to incorporate all of these well,
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the most up to the complex and i think what's on a complex stuff. conrad tangled from yonder in cameroon. many thanks for speaking to us with your watching d. w. news africa still to come losing his side to an eye infection hasn't rob this doctor of his vision for his profession. but 1st, as we saw technological advances and accessibility at the point of care, a driving improvements in the health of africans. but high tech health care is useless without the power to keep it running. south africa isn't the grip of an electricity shortage. the state power company ask on recently implemented what it calls stage 6 of power cuts, all load shedding as they call it locally. but even that stage 6,
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many south africans are without power for up to 10 hours a day. and the countries hospitals on not exempt from the power cuts lennox guest a physician, has decided to do something about that. professor adam mohammed joins me now from johannesburg. welcome to d w. africa to mohammed. can you tell us how s comes, load shedding affects the work you do, and what that means for the patients you're treating. thank you so much for having me on your show. so i think the various stages of load shedding have various impacts the now we currently sitting at stage 5, almost touch day 6, worried about even impending dissolves. the, so an example of my hospital when you have low shading is the computers go off the scan, go all and every take, everything takes a little while to start. so that does put
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a delay in getting access for the patients to the radiology. and then the 2nd challenge is when you have low cheating, you don't have access to getting the results from what the doctors are putting up. and then they delayed results of patients actually getting those results. that a very simplistic way the generators that we have were installed for power outages. they were never envisioned for load shading, which means hours on in my hospital we pending on average 800 to 900 lead to the diesel a day when the low cheating and for how long of a park. so it, it can range from 2 to 4 hours, 2 to $3.00 times a day at any time of the day. so our, our, every now is currently 2 to 4 hours a day times $2.00 to $3.00 times a day. and what does that, what does that mean for the equipment you use?
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so when you have in these outages, you going to damage the u. u p. s. system and the computers and also scans are quite fragile and old and should not even being use. they actually end up having much more problems or circuit breakers d b bought to have to be changed quite significantly. and now overload circuits are also being changed. so we have power surges when the power comes back one. and then you having equipment that takes us a long time to get, replace, going out, and then we again at the disadvantage and mercy of treating patients right. and very quickly on your standard or a petition. you're calling on the government to do something. what you want from the government very quickly when i want the government to exempt hospitals from being load shit, it's happening in the western cape, which is one province of south africa that doesn't locate the hospitals. i want our
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government to exempt all government hospitals. big public hospitals from low chatting to protect the patients. that's what i'm asking for. all right, professor adam mont and johannesburg, thanks for the work you're doing and thanks for taking your time to speak to us. thank you so much. now load shedding as a dreaded term in south africa. right now. the power rationing is affecting homes, public services, and even business, a disaster for africa most industrialized economy. our correspondent adrian creek sent us this report went on and was a loved to come here for work. this was her laundry shop and springs close to johannesburg. and she had up to 30 customers a day. but 1st, she was hit by the pandemic. and then the constant power cuts, she had to leave a barber's shop, moved in. oh, isn't it? cuz palace to full, this is i asked that it, and this is our last,
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every thing only to customers remains none, was, is doing their laundry from home. now, a shop and machines, her 2 employees all gone. the fortune looked spoke now. oh, i am enrolled with the element with us. they will send sizzles to say, and i, it's after center of the office around this time to this time. and you're trying that around stack at still no change out of the book. checking the lord, shedding schedule, became a daily ritual for south africans. basic infrastructure like traffic lights is down . many businesses and factories are forced to close. others, generators or improve the crisis has been brewing for a decade. the state power utility, as common, has been blamed for mismanagement and corruption. despite growing electricity
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demand crucial investments haven't been mate. the power utility is heavily indebted despite several government bailouts in the past. 4 years, south africa fails to build new power plants to replace the aging ones that often haven't been maintained properly. now maintainance challenges and breakdowns are causing massive load, shedding the nuclear power plant behind me, for example, has been an operation for almost 40. yes, there is no end in sight to the crisis. those who can afford it, invest in renewables and inverters. but in one of the most equal societies in the world, only a few can win and was he doesn't want to give up. she's saving money and looking for an investor to buy solar panels and get her laundry business started again. most of the ailing power generation capacity was built long ago. i discussed this
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with militia development finance specialist with more than 20 years of experience and energy and infrastructure in sub saharan africa. and she explained why the system had not been modernized. we've got to this point because we did not build enough new capacity to be able to meet our demand. as you could, i could pointed out some of the power plants quite old, getting back to 5060 s, the new ones, even we have the recent ones which are less than 10 years. but in terms of those plans with problems as well, with the facts in terms of where they would build. so. ringback problems and not just about the old ones, but the load shedding is currently, you know, stay 65 and 6 have been immensely disruptive. we could be on to stage 7, possibly 8. what would that look like? that would be the end of that because that means that escrow has to shed about
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$7000.00 megawatts of capacity. and then currently it's already having an impact on our economy and everywhere else everybody's affected with that . and so that you guys having issues in terms of growth, so this will have an impact on the economy. now president emsella, i'm a post those on this foreign tour here. supposed to be the un general assembly this week. i have to cut that short, come back home to deal with this problem, what possible emergency measure. would he be able to pull off in terms of emergency measures? there's not much we, we are talking about a getting a 1000 megawatts from already existing a u t. plans from private generators in south africa and also from the region to try and black in they get to and now it's going to be able to replenish the peking
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power capacity, which is, you know, these are in idaho power in whatever this is similar to the p class, but in terms of long term issues, building new capacity will take a long time. so we have only 10. so that will not help us. and talk about building a capacity over a long time. that's, that's a know, the whole that the system needs right? the system is an on going to be at currently decommissioning with machine to go mackey court that talk nicely. i'm planning to decode machine quite a few by 2030. that means that we desperately need new, reliable capacity to help us in that and is the and see government to blame for this whole mass. i mean, they've been in government since the end of apartheid. and that's the way to go question. but of course, is that really lucky is the responsibility to ensure that we have security off that line the country. and that has been
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a challenge for many years and we still don't get that credible plan on the table that will address this issue. so definitely a lot of people would say that is the case. okay. who say more less share development finance specialist. thank you for speaking to us. thank you. university strikes or nothing unusual in nigeria. in fact, there have been 17 strikes over the past 23 years, but few have lasted so long as the current one since february, lecturers at major is public universities have not been able to come to an agreement with a government over their pay. that's left to and a half 1000000 students stuck at home. and as dw, only sat to cool my reports this time, they are the ones taking action. oh university students here angry. they are protest blocked the main access road to
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the legacy international airport, causing disruption for travelers and snarling traffic. stay wants the government to end the monks, long strike. right electrodes union asked you, i will be good, i will miss dental. so if you're still is dental, so your so grand with because our own education granted was asked to sign to deal with a government for better pay and conditions back in 2009. but the union says promises mid been, have not been kept. i reported here at the university of lagos, when the strike spotted i see february, nothing has changed. the halls of learning are still closed. i'm students, nigeria mex international professionals. i held hosted by this academics donate
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e former tomorrow. he's a 2nd year student of economics. the strike has kept her home since february i think points i got slag to chris. i was like, i wasn't really going, i'm glad a court just oh, that does strike in lecture as to return to work, triggering some hope for a former nick i'm calling talk to d. we'll be very happy. i'm glad to go about our classes as well as we are hoping for. but with electra as union legend to appeal to ruling and in return to the classroom looks far off. even more distant is a permanent solution to university funding in nigeria. ah. finally, to uganda, where one doctor is winning the hearts of his patients. at his private clinic, timothy ocala lost his sight to an infection, but he has not lost his medical expertise. in fact,
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his thriving and his job and helping to fight stigma against the visually impaired d. w. julius mc gambler reports from capella. these might look like a routine medical examination, but it is not dr. timothy or kilo his blind. so to diagnose his yeah, patient he uses all his other senses. the mother has complete trust in his special way of treating her child work compassionately tool. and he k. as for you and you feel like you isn't looking to think on luckily they, zoe has a touching honda, healing handy. that's why we're kind of in for him from where we are from up to it in 2011 or can i had been practicing as a doctor for 5 years, but then he was diagnosed with
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a rear eye infection called veritas. they did some surgery, they are an give me some treatment, can mark improved 6 months down the road to still to failed. so i just had to accept what had to come my way and i settled before blindness. ocala sees that adapting to blindness has been a challenge both to personal and professional level. but his mental resilience has helped him to cope. i'll strongly blue that every challenge has a solution. so i sat down, i had to come up with the, with that, how best i practice my medicine with the lady mutation, which i, what kilowatts would have full time. 80, who does all their vision investigations such as sing symptoms and taking notes.
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the physician sees that more than 10 years of blindness have made him a better listener. my hearing it's sore shopping ever since i lost my site and it helps me i lot. even sometimes i just listen to the breadth of the baby. i listen and i will tell them no, they will dismiss breathing. there is a problem. if i'm far away from my status, well, i request for it and a ticket to mark juliette. according to the wild health organizations, regional office, about 50 percent of the global population of blind people are estimated to be in africa. kilo sees that the fis many forms of discrimination. public talks, advocates for the of rice. sometimes if somebody does not know you are back on ground, it is you have to believe that you can do something. it is hard to fun and player
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to believe that you can deliver or killer inspires the blind community. this football team has asked him to lo, be support for the blind. using his influence is the way i've seen, or these guys were of come here. most of them don't have mobility. frances, that are devices that they use to move, for example, white gains. so is going to help us to link up we to link to a oh of getting those mavita glasses and other support and equipment that we can using now again. and also in the day to day running of arc does or killer may have lost his sight, but not the capacity to compact to the people he touches with the healing hunt and all that inspiring. no, that's it for now, but be sure to check out our other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa, or on facebook and twitter. next time.
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