Without safe surgery and anesthesia, mothers die in obstructed labour, children remain disabled with inherited malformations and trauma cannot be treated. There is a critical shortage of anesthesiologists globally and many cannot access the surgery they so desperately need.
CASIEF volunteers help build sustainable training programs for anesthesiologists. We focus on developing strong local leaders who go on to train others, develop new services and impact the healthcare system of their whole country.
When CASIEF started working in Nepal in the 1980’s there were only 7 anesthesiologists in the country. With a 20-year commitment to supporting sustainable training programs in Nepal, 62 anesthesiologists were trained and successfully leading a thriving training program. As of 2017 there were 235 anesthesiologists in Nepal. We now support similar programs in Rwanda, Guyana and Ethiopia.
Surgical care has been neglected in global health for decades, leaving weak healthcare systems. There can be no safe surgery without anesthesia, but anesthesia care has been forgotten even more than surgery! In many countries, lack of anesthesia care is the limiting factor to the availability of surgery, often there are just too few anesthesiologists.
Joel Parlow
Chair, Haramaya Lead
Dylan Bould
Past Chair
Julian Barnbrook
Treasurer, Addis Ababa Lead
Jon Bailey
Rwanda Lead
Ashleigh Farrell
Guyana Lead
Gregory Klar
Burkina Faso Lead
Jason McVicar
Remote Canada Lead
Louis-Pierre Poulin
Trustee
Jason Edwards
Trustee
Jennifer Vergel de Dios
Trustee
Saifee Rashiq
Trustee
Hilary MacCormick
Trustee
Jenny Hoang Nguyen
Senior Resident Representative
Ahmed Abbas
Junior Resident Representative
Joel Parlow
Chair, Haramaya Lead
Ashleigh Farrell
Guyana Lead
Jason Edwards
Trustee
Jenny Hoang Nguyen
Senior Resident Representative
Dylan Bould
Past Chair
Gregory Klar
Burkina Faso Lead
Jennifer Vergel de Dios
Trustee
Ahmed Abbas
Junior Resident Representative
Julian Barnbrook
Treasurer, Addis Ababa Lead
Jason McVicar
Remote Canada Lead
Saifee Rashiq
Trustee
Jon Bailey
Rwanda Lead
Louis-Pierre Poulin
Trustee
Hilary MacCormick
Trustee
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