A Symposium -
The Practicalities of Delivering Surgical Care in LMICs

Due to unprecedented interest in our complete operating room packages, tailor made for LMICs and the disaster relief environment, we're pleased to announce a symposium to explore this area at our headquarters in Bedford on 9th November 2021.

Places are limited to just 20, so please register your interest as soon as possible. There is no charge for the symposium.

What's in the programme?

• Welcome, objectives for the day

• Surgery in LMICs – the global picture

• What are the elements of an effective LMIC operating room?

• What are the practical challenges of providing a sustainable operating room in LMICs? What are the solutions?

• The operating room. Practical demonstration and discussion sessions in groups covering:

- Sterilisation
- Anaesthesia and Recovery
- Surgery

• Group sessions: Designing and implementing strategies for long term effective surgical solutions

• Feedback on group work

• Guest lecture by Professor Chris Lavy: A lifetime working and creating new hospitals in Africa

A C-section being carried out in a remote clinic in the DRC

About our Guest Speaker

Professor Chris Lavy

OBE MD MCh FCS FRCS

Professor Chris Lavy is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who has spent over 25 years working in LMICs where he has also had extensive experience in building and commissioning numerous hospitals. He has worked as a commissioner for the Lancet Commission for Global Surgery and is a Principal Investigator for SURG-Africa. Medical Aid International has worked with Professor Lavy for 12 years in both a research support capacity and with equipping the new CURE Orthopaedic Hospital in Bulawayo Zimbabwe.

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First of all I thank you, The Medical International team for your effort and commitment towards developing well standardized biomedical engineers especially for rural hospitals of underdeveloped and developing nations. I am indeed very happy and fortunate to be the part of this team now. I, Mr. Bravin Lakshmanan Rajaretnam, Operating room nurse by profession find Unit 1 about frequency spectrum, Unit 11 about anesthetics and the operating room helped me enhancing my knowledge on this areas. Unit 13 is very crisp and sharp about communication which helped me to imagine scenario of various situation, how to be more effective communicator, Trainer/Teacher etc. Overall, This course is an asset not only for biomedical engineers but also other healthcare workers especially nurses like me. Once again I thank you the team and hats off for your support. THANK YOU…..

Thank you to the Medical International team for your efforts and your support to develop biomedical engineers well standardized by all in the world. I am very happy to be part of this team of biomedical technicians. Thank you for the initiative to train technicians online because this helps a lot of people doing their training and work at the same time without leave our countries. I am very grateful for the knowledge you gave to us during the training period. I am going to doall I have learned to improve the quality of maintenance of our hospital's equipment. Thank you again.

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