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Dr Keith Travel Grant

Watch - Dr Keith Thompson:

A Legacy of Global Anaesthesia 

The travel grant was funded by the late Dr Keith Thompson.

It was awarded to doctors based in the UK and Ireland training in Anaesthetics, Obstetrics or Surgery

Reports
Travel reports from successful candidates

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2022

Hannah Raval

Kanyanga, Zambia

Obstetrics

“The focus of this field visit will be to assess the impact of increased utilisation of the new Mother’s Shelter/Mother’s Waiting Home has on maternal outcomes at the Kanyanga health post.”

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2022

Alex Morgan

Oshakati, Namibia

Anaesthetics and ICU

“All doctors in Namibia… once they are working at a DGH they may be the sole anaesthetist. They will be expected to manage emergency cases out of hours, including major trauma and neurosurgical cases that cannot be transferred” 

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2022

Lucy Lester

Blantyre, Malawi

Plastic Surgery

"I’d like to share my experiences from a year living and working in Blantyre. These are just my opinions and observations, but I hope they illustrate how a typical week might pan out"

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2021

Lydia Longstaff

Mandritsara, Madagascar

Surgery

“The hospital functions remarkably with limited resources. We close abdomens with a sterilised fishing line and use mosquito netting as hernia mesh… Imaging options are x-ray or ultrasound… basic abdominal ultrasound is a new skill that I have quickly learned.”

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2022

Charlotte Greene & Alice Pearson

Sierra Leone 

Research

“The CRADLE device has been shown to save lives but to have a long-term, cost-effective and sustainable impact the devices must be long-lasting…, we undertook a project to assess the sustainability of the CRADLE device”

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2021

Anna Littlejohns

Kampala, Uganda

Paediatrics / Frugal Innovations

“Our work was looking at a newly created CPAP system… using the concepts of frugal engineering to create a device that would specifically be appropriate to use in healthcare settings in LMICs”

Map images by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

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