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Foundation with its mission to provide access to quality healthcare for underserved communities through meaningful innovation today announced publication of its 2020 Annual Report. The report outlines the success of more than 75 projects in 2020 that resulted in 7.5 million people in disadvantaged communities around the world having access to affordable quality healthcare services. This includes projects in China Africa Europe and the Middle East.2020 was an incredibly challenging year with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing the importance of global access to quality healthcare into sharp perspective.Margot CooijmansDirector of the Philips Foundation2020 was an incredibly challenging year with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing the importance of global access to quality healthcare into sharp perspective says Margot Cooijmans Director of the Philips Foundation. The urgency of our support responses worldwide took a dazzling flight. I am incredibly grateful to all the partners who joined forces with us in 2020 to deliver timely relief as well as lasting change and to the employees of Philips and the Philips Foundation for their constant support and energy in putting our mission into action - organizing access to healthcare for underserved communities. COVID-19 responseWhen the COVID-19 pandemic struck at the beginning of 2020 Philips Foundation stepped up its efforts to protect those communities most at risk. Notable examples highlighted in the organizations Annual Report includeHealthcare equipment for Thunder God Mountain Hospital China with the support of Philips China the Philips Foundation donated urgently needed healthcare equipment with a value of approximately EUR 2 million to the newly-built Thunder God Mountain Hospital in Wuhan city to support the prevention and treatment of pneumonia associated with COVID-19.AI software to detect and monitor COVID-19 patients South Africa with the help of implementation funding from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency RVO and Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO the Philips Foundation helped to deploy artificial intelligence AI software that deepens the analysis of chest X-rays to help the rapid triage and monitoring of COVID-19 patients in 11 South African hospitals.Machine learning and AI to identify epidemic outbreaks Africa - a donation by Philips Foundation to establish a Virus Outbreak Data Network in Africa aimed at improving the findability accessibility interoperability and reuse of digital assets including data from Africas health systems to identify and contain COVID-19 outbreaks.Rapid deployment intensive care units Italy and Lebanon - development and procurement support to create 20-bed mobile ICUs that can be rapidly deployed to locations where COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm local healthcare infrastructures. With financial help from the AFAS Foundation and Noaber Foundation two of these units were deployed to the Lombardy region and the island of Sardinia in Italy and in collaboration with Philips Lebanon the Lebanese Army and the EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid ECHO organization another was deployed in Lebanons capital Beirut. A full list of Philips Foundations COVID-19 response efforts is available on its website.In addition to its COVID-19 response efforts Philips Foundation succeeded in initiating new projects and keeping other ones going. Two examples that stand out are Philips Foundations joint initiative with UNICEF to fund and support the Maker Innovation project in Kenya and its collaboration with UK charity Global Action Plan to launch the The Clean Air for Schools Framework.Maker Innovation project in Kenya - a change the system from within initiative aimed at achieving better mother- newborn- and child-health in low-resource environments by fostering local hands-on innovation and entrepreneurship to locally create and manufacture solutions that meet local needs. The projects Maker Space is equipped with digital fabrication tools and equipment for use by students at the University of Nairobi. Through support from the Philips Foundation and training from Philips the project has already resulted in the development of 19 medical device prototypes seven of which have been judged suitable for further development.Clean Air for Schools Framework - a framework providing schools teachers parents and local authorities in the UK and the Republic of Ireland with an externally validated action blueprint for tackling air pollution in and around schools. With evidence suggesting that halving outdoor air pollution could result in a 20 to 50 reduction in the number of children with poor lung function 1 the tool was so well received that the blueprint is now being rolled out across Spain. New directionIn 2020 Philips Foundation made a strategic decision to focus on partnerships with social entrepreneurs to develop healthcare technologies and sustainable models that provide underserved communities with affordable access to healthcare - models that leverage the business and innovation expertise and resources of Philips to facilitate solution development and scale-up.Philips Foundation helped 50 Healthy Entrepreneurs franchisees in Uganda small businesses in local communities that sell over-the-counter medicines and health products to expand their services with diagnostic tools and telehealth services. This resulted in increased public awareness of disease better insight into patients conditions reduced patient expenses and increased revenue.In addition Philips Foundation provided a loan to CheckUps Medical a provider of affordable primary healthcare services in Kenya and South Sudan to help more low-wage families access medicines and care launch a mobile clinic and further develop CheckUps teleconsultation and home care services that started during the local lockdown.