Hernia repair surgery in Africa is far more than a routine medical procedure. For many Nigerian patients and families, a hernia brings ongoing pain, limits mobility, cuts into someone's ability to earn a living, and puts real financial strain on a household. Left...
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...
Valerie devoted her clinical skills to the operating room for about 10 years before deciding to transition into the classroom as a perioperative nurse educator. Lecturing at the School of Peri-operative and Critical Care Nursing in Ghana and acting as a facilitator...