Stepping away from the ward, theatre or clinic to work overseas is a bigger decision than most annual leave requests, and it pays to get the groundwork right before you start looking at flights. Doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, paramedics and allied health...
In Africa, a single untreated surgical condition can quietly dismantle a family's finances. An injury, a cleft lip, a cataract, an obstetric complication: each one can cut into household income, pull children out of school and push relatives into unpaid caring roles...
Surgery can save a life, ease pain and restore function, but recovery doesn't stop when a patient walks out of theatre. In humanitarian settings, that same patient might also be dealing with displacement, separation from family, money worries, grief or trauma from...
Walk past an operating theatre on any given day and you'll see surgeons and nurses getting the credit, while a smaller team works quietly in the background to make sure everything actually functions. That's the operating theatre technician, one of the most important...
On Easter Sunday in Ghana, Charity was joined by her family as they sang and danced in the company of a jubilant congregation. Today, she’s a key member of this church—cleaning as well as handling church offerings—but, just a few years ago, she couldn’t bring herself...
For more than a decade, Vaviroa lived with a growing goiter on her neck in the small village of Madirovalo, Madagascar. But the physical burden was only part of her story. She was also carrying the heartbreak of losing her only son and the loneliness that lingered. ...