By Dr Sue Catling and Dr Sara Hunt
The students can do some things well e.g. spinal anaesthetics, ketamine anaesthetics, but they lack the resources to do a full spectrum of anaesthesia at the moment.
They are so keen to learn and they have the intelligence and ability to do things right – surely this is the huge resource that we can encourage.
Not knowing what I’d find out there, I'd brought with me 6 Uk spinal needles and the drugs to give a safe spinal (just in case any of us got appendicitis). But, while I would have been happy to let them give me a spinal from the technical point of view, I would have been worried about basic asepsis and infection.
This summarises the whole problem with the current system in Liberia.