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also coming up more south african homes, a plunge into darkness for hours on end every day as the countries electricity crisis lessons. but why is the power great crumbling in this african power house? 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 and uganda who even after losing his sight to an eye infection has never given up the blind g. p. still driven by the passion for his profession. ah, i'm told me all logical. welcome to the program. you can never really have too much of life and good health 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 a person lives in a good state of health. a key element is improving health care for women, advancement 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, d, dublin years africa's blaze. a young reports from you own day s mother sir, has regular checkups cervical cancer can be cheated even did the early 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 lou calling me keep up blessedly, bestowed. michelle from the auditor the screening. i feel totally fine. that's very different to the previous test that i've done from on the speculum was very different to the mos in the one they used before. was often very uncomfortable. and incom foy did lou flemish noise ammunitions used them at all to call a spoon to whom 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 his smartest quickly that is most affordable. irene can screen her patience with a smart keyed in order 10 minutes. this is

a measure relief for people like her walk in mother's health facilities across the central african nation. so if i can love about it is true that we do not have a specialist here, but thanks to this equipment we can solicit to help with a specialist from a distance who can help with diagnosing a patient can and provide better care for the patients when they up, he's on salary. the past lukewarm, but it will be broncho the party, diesel did new thing was developed by dr. tucker. so data for you? oh, camry, new medical, doctor and entrepreneur. they control the device as data in real time and diagnoses arrive within minutes. del formation is lit, assessed remotely hooked by so schanzer. with these objective is that all remained mother were to leave the mother with their found the mother. this was economic levels can have access to our so like a console screen. another point of care with dr. taco hope to launch is smart class

as quinn and innovation across the continent by next year. at the same time, he continues to develop other tech solutions that can solve articles health needs and now joined by that innovator you saw in the report just now 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 just to give an idea of the context. right. so this is mark quincy vision. 2 very old. one is called the pickles breast, or go or give up, or one or 2 years old. and you know that the cole, scott, is like a microscope from it. so they don't provide artificial either on a like

a computer screen. so 1st of all, this corpuscle device con, 3 eyes and it's not really available in developing and placing christ, cargo and workers. that's what we decided to do to build around and you know, based on bank corporate and be talking all of us into one into one portable devices can adapt to the areas and be able to easily use animals to provide a form in the area. so basically incorporate just pickle, article post and i believe you've got 2 samples to show us how, how they compare just give and i go watermark, take a look factor because what it is, i think we mentioned more device, right? so if i for me how so that's like so the web and then you can on,

on suitcases back. or the vision is sometimes uncomfortable in some mission. but sometimes we cannot for funny visual like right. we decided to read over even come or we are spot on the device, which is like this was the moving company is a smaller size and from the church of covered also i will see the more comfortable for the women on each of this. let me for the provider and to bring it idea of being equal 1st 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 think with the movie, what come in with the possible corpus coverage? what are we call them an article scoping to send by? well then congratulations on this innovation. you also have breast cancer screening that you carry out as well. yeah, i'm in the objective of the project, just maybe i can get it to most common concepts and stuff. so i have to get a book or can come from what i'm 50 percent of all turns us or we can, i can book of them and that's a huge impact to 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 outage is a those a problem where you are but of course, i mean we're taking the course on the context was some of course, very difficult,

complex, talking about going to choose the supply as well as you can make over to t as well. but of course could co creation design more go we try to incorporate all of these well the most i stuff that's a machine to the complex and i think the sports on a complex stuff. conrad tank, who from your day 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 is in 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 at stage 6, many south africans are without power for up to 10 hours a day. and the countries, hospitals are 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 at the moment. can you tell us how as 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 and worried about given impending dissolves. 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 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 patient actually getting those results. that's a very simplistic way the generated that we have. we installed for power outages, they were never envisioned for low and shitting, which mean hours on in my hospital we spending on average $800.00 to $900.00 lead to the diesel a day when the low cheating and for how long of a pockets. 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 the day. and what does that, what does that mean for the equipment you use? 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. dbi both have to be changed quite significantly. and now overload circuits are also being changed. so we have power surges when the power comes back on. 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 all patients, right. and very quickly on a petition you're calling on the government to do something. what you want from the

government very quickly. one, i want the government to exempt hospitals from being load shit. it's happening in the western cape, which is one province of from south africa. that doesn't locate the hospitals. i want our government to exempt all government hospitals. big public hospitals from low chilling 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 is a dread 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. when anon was a loft to come, your full 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 uncle's palace? to fall, this is west that it and this is rather lost, everything 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 in love with it. i mean that they will send sizzles to say not at present early off at 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 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, an equal society is 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 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 pointed out, some of the power plants quite old and getting back to 50. 60 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 when they were built. so now programs and not just about

the old ones. but the load shedding is, is currently, you know, state 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 shit. about $7000.00 megawatts of capacity and they, and it's already adding 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 tor. he's supposed to be the un general assembly this week may 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 chance from credit to generate test 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 power capacity, which is a, and i drove power in whatever this is to the p class. but in terms of long term issues, building new capacity will take a low. and 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 an over hold at the system needs, right. the system is in the home currency, decommissioning with machine to call mackie corvette talk nicely. i'm planning to decommission quite a few by 2030. that means that we desperately need new, reliable capacity to, 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. that's the way to go question, but of course is that really lucky is that is one's ability to ensure that we have security supply in the country. and that has been 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 will say that is the case. ok. who say militia development, finance specialist. thank you for speaking to us. thank you. ah, university strikes are nothing unusual in nigeria. in fact, they 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 2 and

a half 1000000 students stock at home. and as d, w is only such uncle my reports. this time they are the ones taking action. oh university students here angry. the are protest blocked the main access road to the legacy international airport, causing disruption for travelers and snarling traffic. they wanted the government to end the monks, long strike. right? electra union asked you, i was looking for that. the only thing to do is to listen to us. oh, so grand with because our own education of granted by some asked to sign to deal with a government for better pay and conditions back in 2009 boss. the union says promises mid been, have not been camped. i reported here at the university of lagos,

wendy strikes. that's it. i see february, nothing has changed. the halls of learning are still closed. i'm students, nigeria mex international professionals. i held hosted by these academic sco, make e format. my is a 2nd year student of economics. the strike has kept her home since february at all points. i got a leg to chris. i was like, i wasn't really going, i'm glad a courts just oh, that does strike in lecture as to return to work, triggering some hope for a former if they can call you talk to d, we'll be very happy. i'm glad to go back to her 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.

finally to uganda, where one doctor is winning the hearts of his patients. at his private clinic, timothy or callo lost his sight to an infection, but he has not lost his medical expertise. in fact, his thriving and his job and helping to fight stigma against the visually impaired t w's. julius ma gamble reports from capella. these might look like a routine medical examination. but it is not dr. timothy or kilo he is blind. so to diagnoses yeah, patient the uses all his other senses. their mother has complete trust in his special way of treating her child who works good session. and he, he, as for you and you feel like you isn't going to sleep than welcome these away has a touching her healing hand. this way we're kind of in for him from where we are

from up to it in 2011 or can had been practicing as a doctor for 5 years. but then he was diagnosed with a rear. i in fiction called veritas. they deemed some said that they are on government, some treatment can mark improved 6 months down the road to still to failed. so i just had to accept what had come my were. and i settled before blindness. killer 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 strongly believe that every challenge has a solution. so i sat down, i only, i had to come up with the, with that,

how best can i practice my medicine with the daily mutation, which i have, what kilowatts would have full time, 80 who does or their vision investigations such as sing symptoms and taking notes the physician sees that more than 10 years of blindness have made him a bitter lisa. 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 breaths of the bid. i listen and i will tell them know that when dismiss breathing, there is a problem. if from far away from my stethoscope, i request for it and i take it to mont julietta. according to the wild hills organization's regional office, about 50 percent of the global population of blind people are estimated to be in

africa. killer sees that the fis many forms of discrimination. public talks, advocates for the of rice. sometimes if somebody does not know you are back a ground, it is, you have to believe that you can do something. it is hard to fun and player to believe that you can deliver or killer inspires the blind community. this football team has asked him to lobby support for the blind using his influence. it the way of saying, are these guys were of come here? most of them don't have more be tech 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 does mavita classes and other support and equipment that you can use in our game. and are also in the day to day running of october or kilo may have lost his sight, but not the capacity to compact to people. he touches with a healing hunt and on that inspiring no,

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