Philips employees and Philips Foundation join forces in the fight on childhood pneumonia
14 Novembro 2019 - 10:00AM
Philips employees and Philips Foundation join forces in the fight
on childhood pneumonia
November 14, 2019
Focused program of partnerships, collaboration, funding and
volunteering addresses the community-level prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of a disease that takes the lives of around 800,000
under-five-year-olds each year, mostly in disadvantaged
communities.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips
(NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and
the Philips Foundation, with its mission to reduce healthcare
inequality by providing access to quality healthcare for
disadvantaged communities, today announced the achievements of a
year-long program of collaborations to reduce infant mortality
rates for childhood pneumonia, a disease that currently claims the
lives of around 800,000 under-five-year-olds a year [1] –
equivalent to one every 39 seconds.
Combining the volunteering activities of Philips’ 80,000
employees, local stakeholder engagement, accessible and affordable
technology, and the scale-up capabilities of international NGOs,
this childhood pneumonia program exemplifies the Philips
Foundation’s commitment to drive and support initiatives that
deliver long-term system change and achieve lasting impact. During
the past 12 months, the program is estimated to have created access
to better care for more than 700,000 people, in countries as
widespread as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Malawi and
India.
“The mission of the Philips Foundation is to reduce healthcare
inequality by providing access to quality healthcare for
disadvantaged communities,” said Ronald de Jong, Chairman of the
Philips Foundation Board. “Focusing our year-long volunteering
efforts on a single global healthcare issue that disproportionately
affects disadvantaged communities, created a multiplier effect,
supporting ways to overcome the challenges, and ensuring long-term
impact.”
Childhood pneumoniaPneumonia in children under
five was chosen as the 2018-2019 topic for Philips’ employee
volunteering, due to its many casualties, and the fact that
respiratory disease is one of the expert fields of Philips that the
foundation can tap into. Caused by viral, bacterial, or fungal
infection of the lungs, childhood pneumonia can be prevented by
immunization, a healthier diet and improved environmental
conditions [2] – for example, better (indoor) air quality. Although
bacterial pneumonia can be effectively treated with low-cost
antibiotics, only a third of children receive them in time [2]. The
accurate determination of rapid breathing, which is the principal
early indicator of childhood pneumonia, can be achieved by
leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in affordable
diagnostic devices.
Examples of the supported and initiated activities of the
Philips Foundation over the past 12 months, conducted through
global partnerships, local projects and support of social
entrepreneurs, are listed below:
- Save the Children and ZMQ in India – VISHWAAS (Breath
of Hope) project: This program is aimed at developing and
proving a low-cost innovative approach in India for the prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of childhood pneumonia, including an
app-based solution to improve awareness of the means of prevention
and care-seeking practices in affected communities.
- Partnership with Ashoka Fellow Hilmi Quraishi, ZMQ –
the MIRA Channel project on childhood pneumonia: This
project addresses the knowledge gap in childhood pneumonia through
a series of short digital stories embedded in a larger ‘Maternal
& Child Health’ mobile-based platform called MIRA.
- The Malaria Consortium BREATHE (Breath REcognition Aid
to Health Experts) project: This study aims to assess the
reliability of a video annotation tool for counting respiratory
rate, which has the potential to be used as a new reference
standard for measuring the performance of new automated respiratory
rate diagnostic aids to support the diagnosis of pneumonia in
children under five in low resource settings.
[1] data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/pneumonia[2]
www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/pneumonia
For further information, please contact:
Ben ZwirsPhilips Global Press OfficeTel.: +31 6 15213446E-mail:
ben.zwirs@philips.com
Yannick EshuijsPhilips FoundationTel. : +31 6
18526633E-mail: yannick.eshuijs@philips.comTwitter: @PhilipsFDN
About the Philips FoundationThe Philips
Foundation is a registered charity that was established in July
2014 as the central platform for Philips’ CSR activities.
Reflecting our commitment to United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all
ages) and 17 (Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development), the mission of the Foundation is to reduce healthcare
inequality by providing access to quality healthcare for
disadvantaged communities. We do this by deploying Philips’
expertise, innovative products and solutions, by collaborating with
key partners around the world and by providing financial support
for collaborative activities. More information on the Philips
Foundation can be found at www.philips-foundation.com.
About Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips (NYSE: PHG,
AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on
improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the
health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis,
treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and
deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated
solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a
leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient
monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health
and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2018
sales of EUR 18.1 billion and employs approximately 80,000
employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News
about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
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