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World Health Organization (WHO) |
Digital payments to health workers boost retention, motivation, and impact
Digital payments also save time and money for health campaign organizers, including the burden and expense of transporting large sums of cash and completing documentation
Campaigns in Africa to stop polio and other diseases have a more stable, better-motivated workforce thanks to WHO’s collaboration with countries and partners to pay frontline health workers through their mobile phones instead of in cash. “Over 80 percent of workers are saying they prefer the digital payments,” said Ahmed…
