
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
The availability of blood for transfusions saves lives after difficult births and operations. But in much of the developing world, hospitals have a blood shortage. One entrepreneur in Nigeria is working on a solution. She has developed an app that connects blood banks to hospitals, and has built a network of moped drivers to ferry blood around Lagos, the largest city in the country. World Hacks investigates whether her solution can save lives.
Also on the programme, the designers of a new “city tree” – large structures filled with moss that attempt to absorb pollution from the air.
Presenter: Mukul Devichand
Image: Moped driver in Lagos / Credit: BBC
4.8
222222 ratings
The availability of blood for transfusions saves lives after difficult births and operations. But in much of the developing world, hospitals have a blood shortage. One entrepreneur in Nigeria is working on a solution. She has developed an app that connects blood banks to hospitals, and has built a network of moped drivers to ferry blood around Lagos, the largest city in the country. World Hacks investigates whether her solution can save lives.
Also on the programme, the designers of a new “city tree” – large structures filled with moss that attempt to absorb pollution from the air.
Presenter: Mukul Devichand
Image: Moped driver in Lagos / Credit: BBC
5,434 Listeners
1,850 Listeners
785 Listeners
7,809 Listeners
410 Listeners
109 Listeners
84 Listeners
1,760 Listeners
1,064 Listeners
341 Listeners
954 Listeners
953 Listeners
1,962 Listeners
1,055 Listeners
355 Listeners
394 Listeners
749 Listeners
472 Listeners
776 Listeners
3,022 Listeners
170 Listeners
26 Listeners
168 Listeners