Background: Primary postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is an obstetric emergency caused by excessive blood loss that occurs most commonly after the placenta is delivered. PPH can lead to volume depletion, hypovolemic shock, anemia, and it is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. With 470 deaths per 100,000 live births, the maternal mortality ratio in Ethiopia is one of the highest in the world. It is estimated that 94% of births occur at home in Ethiopia and that 10% of maternal deaths are attributed to PPH. Currently, physicians use visual estimation to calculate blood loss and provide fluid during delivery. This traditional method is subjective and generally inaccurate.Method: In this project, after delivery blood loss measurement system integrated with fluid delivery and vital sign monitoring method is proposed. The collection and measurement system collects blood loss after delivery and measures the amount of blood loss. The management system continuously monitors the mother’s heart rate and blood pressure. These vital sign values are integrated with the measured blood loss to estimate the amount of IV fluid required to be delivered for the mother. The rate of IV fluid delivery is regulated by a flow rate sensor and solenoid valve.Results: The prototype was built and undergone through different tests and iterations. The proposed device was tested for accuracy, cost effectiveness and ease to use. 91.28% accuracy has been achieved and the prototype was built with less than 210 USD.Conclusion: The proposed design allows physicians, especially those in low resource setting, to estimate blood loss and deliver fluid accurately. This helps to reduce maternal mortality rate that may occur due to postpartum hemorrhage.

Pregnancy is a process of developing a fetus in a woman’s womb leading to anatomical and physiological changes. Currently, numerous health facilities offering antenatal services are yet to adopt health informatics. This led to several challenges, including unskilled, early and poor quality antenatal and delivery care, case traffic because many patients are admitted per day, and shy medical professional doctors, nurses, midwives and nursing aids. The main idea of this project was to design and develop a new system for managing maternal health in antenatal care. This web-based antenatal care management platform is designed using XAMPP, PHP, HTML and CSS. It involves designing the stoner interface and identifying the inputs, outputs, and processes of the designed system. The configuration involves the use of case diagrams, sequence diagrams and class diagram tools to achieve the physical consummation of the antenatal care management platform and positive living information system. The purpose of this work was to create a web-based platform for managing antenatal care. The designed project was tested by using parameters such as WHO guidelines, security, user-friendliness and data storage. Three testing criteria, namely, unit testing, integration testing and system testing, were used to check the efficiency and effectiveness of the antenatal care management platform (ANCMP). The platform that was created met almost all of the criteria that were set out in the design. This project is objectively targeted to develop a web-based antenatal care management system to overcome the complications that occur during and following gestation. It controls the overall conditioning of antenatal care, which includes the enrollment of expectant mothers, shadowing of the listed day and reminding them via email and effectively recording and saving all medical information about the mothers.

Frugal digital technologies are an emerging approach designed to be cheap, simple, and robust by prioritizing practical repurposing over novelty to improve healthcare outcomes, where the healthcare sector in low and middle-income countries faces many challenges in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating patients due to unreliable electricity, inadequate funding, the complexity of medical devices, and a lack of trained healthcare workers. We systematically searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar in accordance with PRISMA 2020 guidelines. From these studies searched, 172 eligible studies published between January 2000 and December 2025 were identified. Of these, the largest reported technologies (28%) are mobile health platforms, followed by handheld diagnostic devices (25%), physiological sensors (19%), and wearable monitoring systems (16%), with telehealth technologies (12%). Most innovations targeted diagnostics (20%), neonatal care (19%), physiological monitoring (19%), maternal health (18%), treatment-support technologies (16%), and telemedicine (8%). Digital frugal health technologies that reach low-resource settings tend to be affordable, functional, simple, easy to use, repairable, modular, and fit with local infrastructure. These characteristics of frugal innovation help to expand access to care, simplify clinical workflows, and support frontline workers. Most studies described prototypes and short pilots. Few have tested whether devices remain effective, scalable, and sustainable over time, or whether they fit routine healthcare systems.