Author Archives: Adam Engel

University of Iowa professor starts non-profit healthcare app

IOWA CITY, Iowa (CBS2/FOX28) — Twenty three hundred. That’s how many kids under the age of five die everyday in Dr. Azeez Butali’s motherland of Nigeria. Butali currently works as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry. He wants to keep them alive and thriving, which is why he and a…

Crowdfunding campaign supports effort to increase survival rate among Nigerian children

In Azeez Butali’s native country of Nigeria, approximately 2,300 children under 5 years old die each day from preventable diseases and circumstances, totaling 840,000 deaths per year. The leading cause is a lack of communication between mothers and doctors. With a ratio of one doctor to more than 2,000 children, communication can be overwhelming, and…