16th October was World Anaesthesia Day focusing on occupational wellbeing

The morning handover starts with team introductions followed by an outline of each of the patients on the ward – where they are in their...

6 weeks have passed since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in my country, Ethiopia. It was the fear of coming to reality. Despite...

LMICs are both where innovation is needed most and equally where the frugal, elegant, and rapidly mobilised technologies

If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps there has never been a more urgent need for innovation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges for medical education, one of the most prominent being the widespread cancellation of...

25th January 2020 I woke up in Hong Kong on the first day of Chinese New Year to an eerie feeling - the usual cheer of welcoming the New...

Dear friend, I am an anaesthetist in a low resource country. I am so glad you want to come to my country and support me, and my...

The QUESTION A staggering 1.3 billion people live with a visual impairment worldwide; 36 million of these are completely blind[1]. Visual...

Karen Chui Climate change is at the forefront of political discussions around the world. The social movement Extinction Rebellion brought...

Car vs car. Head-on collision. Head on windscreen collision. Headed to my local doctor. He watched and waited. Hours. Then sent me to...

Whilst conflict is a major barrier to general health provision in low and middle income countries (LMICs) its effect on maternal and...

One of the five key messages delivered by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is that to reach a minimum operative volume of 5000...