Jane Feinmann freelance journalist and science writer pic: Polly Corrigan I'm a freelance science and health writer contributing to newspapers journals and magazines - with a special interest in type 2 diabetes and diet, safe surgery, safe anaesthesia and human factors in medicine, also women's healthcare and healthcare supply issues arising from Covid. I am a Radio 4 editor, organise meetings for journalists and provide advice and training. I also write content for pharmaceutical and technology industry. I am honoured to be a judge for the Polly Corrigan Book Prize, set up in her memory by the King's Centre for Intelligence Studies of which she was a member and the journal, Intelligence and National Security. The winner of the 2022 award will be announced on September 30 2022. A website memorialises Polly's life and work pollycorrigan.blog. Fund-raising for anaesthesia machines in Mongolia.
I wrote about the daunting challenge of providing universal surgery in Mongolia in 2018 with a visit commissioned and travel expenses paid by the much-missed website Wellcome's Mosaic Science. While there I was asked by Mongolia's leading surgeon, Dr Ganbold Lundeg, to carry a message to the UK Government to request aid to fund UK-manufactured Diamedica portable anaesthesia machines that can (relatively) cheaply and easily bring surgery to remote parts of the country - where access to surgery is often non-existent. On my return, I found that HM Government were not interested. The fund-raising Safe Anaesthesia Mongolia came into being in June 2018, launched with this video made with Laura Antonioni and voiceover by Paula Keogh. It is still being used to raise funds within the global anaesthesia community to raise funds for machines and training of local surgeons and anaesthetists.
It raised £6,500 to purchase and deliver two anaesthesia machines - with a further £6,500 (and two more machines) donated by the superb Australian charity Future Crunch. Dr
SAM has now stopped operations. But this effort continues. Since November 2021, Diamedica has began using the SAM video to raise funds for more anaesthesia machines to be sent to Mongolia. Also the surgical charity Interplast is working with Dr Ganbold and Australian anaesthetist Dr David Pescod to improve draw over anaesthesia skills in rural hospitals now using the machines donated by the campaign. 
It raised £6,500 to purchase and deliver two anaesthesia machines - with a further £6,500 (and two more machines) donated by the superb Australian charity Future Crunch.
SAM has now stopped operations. But this effort continues. Since November 2021, Diamedica has began using the SAM video to raise funds for more anaesthesia machines to be sent to Mongolia. Also the surgical charity Interplast is working with Dr Ganbold and Australian anaesthetist Dr David Pescod to improve draw over anaesthesia skills in rural hospitals now using the machines donated by the campaign. Dr Ganbold with surgical team and Diamedica Glostavent Diamedica machine at Umnogobi InterSoum Hospital, Southern Mongolia. |
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