The Rotary Club of Park Ridge, IL, is donating new diagnostic imaging equipment to Children's Hospital Zinga in Tanzania.
The digital x-ray, digital dental x-ray, and ultrasound equipment will be used to help physicians reduce the country's infant mortality rate, which is one of the highest in Africa. The goal is to provide diagnostic imaging to improve healthcare for mothers and children in pre- and postnatal periods, the club said.
The Illinois Rotarians generated $100,000 in total funds from 13 Rotary Clubs in Illinois, Kansas, and California; the First United Methodist Church and St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Church in Park Ridge; and an anonymous donor.
![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
