Congratulations to Smile Train's President & CEO Susannah Schaefer, recipient of the 2nd annual Charles B. Wang Community Service Award.🥳🎊

With a membership exceeding 65 professionals, the AAU is the premier community for anaesthesia providers within Uganda. Embrace the opportunity to become a valued member today and access an exclusive network of esteemed peers.
Register here: bit.ly/48LTzqx

🗣 'I love working with children.'

Dr. Amon Ngongola is a brilliant consultant paediatric surgeon, saving children's lives in Lusaka, Zambia. 🇿🇲

In 2021, Kids Operating Room and Smile Train installed 3 brand new paediatric operating rooms at his hospital. 🙌

'After you operate…

Now launched: WFSA Global Anaesthesia Mentoring Programme 🤩

The programme helps to develop careers, share professional knowledge and build supportive networks globally. Mentorships can be in English, Spanish or French.

Learn more 👉 wfsahq.org/get-involved/t…

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With our revamped 3D printing lab CoRSU we are now fabricating more insoles, AFOs, prosthetic sockets for artificial limbs and as a bonus, toys for the #kids . We hope to advance our services to the public in the near future. The sky is the limit.

The National Safe Motherhood Conference is back!
Let’s all prepare and submit our abstracts as we look forward to a great day.

Wow! BBC World Service Health Check is featuring the Smile Train #Lifebox capnography safer anesthesia monitoring project! Huge thanks to Susannah Schaefer Erin Stieber Elizabeth Igaga Mary T. Nabukenya Zipporah Gathuya Zippy Ellen O’Sullivan Faye Evans WFSA #AngelaEnright #RobertNeighbour +++++++

The Nursing Leadership for Surgical Excellence program equips nurses to bridge gaps in #PerioperativeCare . Help us expand this vital training and elevate nursing practices across low-resource countries.

Donate: bit.ly/3fefYaf

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Exciting news! The Smile Train - #Lifebox initiative capnography work in #Uganda has been featured on BBC World Service #HealthCheck ! by Claudia Hammond and miss g.
Listen here from min 16.36: bbc.in/3TNyWoI

#everysurgerysafer #closethegap

ANNOUNCEMENT: #SAFEOnline #Obstetrics and #Paediatrics courses now available online as open-access as well as closed courses 🥳

The online courses provide knowledge-based components of SAFE in an open access e-learning format

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Privileged to talk about health workforce achievements, challenges & potential solutions to ensure safer surgery for all Association of Surgeons of Uganda (ASOU) Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda Center for Health Equity in Surgery & Anesthesia #asou #surgicallandscapeexhibition

Stakeholders Discussion

Topic: NationalSurgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Plan ( NSOAP).

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Professor Moses Galakunde emphasizes the importance of accurately defining our problems and actively participating in discussions where information is being disseminated.

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We should have ample anesthesiologists to ensure that once there a complication is detected, it is dealt with promptly.

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It’s here again! Applications are open for PATA PATA Uganda Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda, Nigeria & Zambia! wfsahq.org/news/latest-ne…

Patients have a right to dignity & decent care. Look at the patient beyond their disease. Ms Fatia Kiyange ED Center for Health Human Rights&Devt Association of Surgeons of Uganda (ASOU) #surgicallandscapeexhibition . Let’s be kind to our patients!

The importance of training teams, not just a specialty. “We need critical care so that the good work the surgeon does, does not go to waste” KIJOEK Dr Joseph Kiwanuka, President Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda at the Association of Surgeons of Uganda (ASOU) #surgicallandscapeexhibition . Ministry of Health- Uganda Center for Health Equity in Surgery & Anesthesia

“Advances in surgery are not possible without advances in anesthesia” KIJOEK Dr Joseph Kiwanuka speaking at the Association of Surgeons of Uganda (ASOU) #surgicallandscapeexhibition . Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda

Incredible work by ASOS-Paeds & #APORG . Outcomes following anaesthesia & surgery for children in Africa are poor: complications 4x higher & mortality 11x higher than HICs. Many operating rooms were reported as not safe for paediatric surgery in hospitals. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Addressable health system factors are adversely affecting surgical outcomes for children in Africa. A summary of the main findings of the recently published ASOS-Paeds study in the Lancet.
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ASOS-Paeds was led by Alexandra Torborg