Births more than doubled after solar light came to rural clinics in Uganda

Midwife Sylvia remembers delivering babies by torchlight. A decade of data from rural Ugandan clinics, analysed by volunteers from data company SAS for the charity Let There Be Light International, now shows what changed when solar power arrived: clinics stayed open about 11.5 hours longer each day, attended births rose by about 107%, and each clinic saw roughly 49 more patients a week. Reliable light turned a risky night-time journey into a safer clinic birth for mothers across the region.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: institutional program