Follow the checklist team around Madagascar

Click the tab above ' follow the checklist team around Madagascar' if you want to read an external blog that my MCB Manager Krissy Close is writing every couple of weeks to track the progress of this incredible project. We are aiming to impact the entire nationa by visiting every Regional Reference Hospital and teaching them how to implement the World Health Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist (' the checklist') and then re-visit 3 months later to see how they are getting on and encourage them to continue. 

The 'checklist' has the potential to reduce deaths and infections after surgery by almost 50%. We are also giving each hospital the pulse oximeters they need. A pulse oximter is a crucial safety monitor during anesthesia and surgery which checks how well you are breathing oxygen. Yes, oxygen, that substance essential for life. Without this monitor anesthesia becomes inherently unsafe becuase you dont know you are not getting enough oxygen until is is often far too late. Yet 70% of hospital in sub-saharan africa do not have one!

This is how we hope to make a lasting impact on the nation of Madagascar, and has been something I have felt on my heart to do for a number of years, And yes, it is indeed a big dream,that, thanks to your support, has become reality for me and the people of Madagascar.