JKUAT students digitise 'purple book, to save mothers' lives A team of students won Sh300,000 at the inaugural PPH Conference hackathon by turning the maternal health handbook into a life-saving mobile app Health 47 min ago

Their first step will be designing the back-end system, which controls how alerts are routed from the mother to community health volunteers.

Faith Mutanu, a third-year JKUAT student serving as the Business and Sustainability lead, shared during the presentation that the team will begin with Kiambu County in the first phase.

The purple book, officially known as the Mother and Child Health Handbook, has become an unlikely star on social media, often drawing huge viewership for its role in funny memes and videos.