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MIT Sloan Students Return From Tanzania
Gradian recently partnered with four students from MIT’s Global Health Delivery Lab (see post here) on a project in Tanzania studying innovative healthcare technologies (in particular, the UAM) and the...
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Dr. John Sampson (Johns Hopkins University) speaking on the UAM at the 5AAAC...
“A machine was purchased in Sierra Leone with an enflurane vaporizer and yet enflurane had never been used at this hospital ever. And the service instructions were in Chinese.” -Dr. John Sampson Dr....
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UAM User Forum – Cairo, Egypt
What do you get when 15 of your primary end users sit around a table talking to each other and you? A lot of frank, valuable feedback. On Saturday, 6 April Gradian held its first-ever users’ forum in...
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Function Friday: The Oxygen Concentrator
This post continues our new series, “Function Friday,” that features a different part of the UAM each month. These posts are published on the 2nd Friday of each month to help you understand more of how...
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A “Karibuni” from Tanzania
(Gradian traveled to Tanzania in March to install two new UAM’s and train providers from two local hospitals.) Tanzania offered one big “Karibuni” for Gradian, welcoming us at every turn over the 10...
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Edna Adan Ismail visits Gradian
It’s not every day that the Former Foreign Minister and First Lady of a country stops by your office. On April 8th, we were honored to have Mrs. Edna Adan Ismail visit our offices here in New York...
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Anaesthesia Champion: William Banda
Gradian works with wonderful, committed anaesthesia providers around the world whose hard work often goes unnoticed. We are happy to introduce you to them as we continue this monthly series...
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Photo Friday: Reading the UAM User Guide in Uganda
On this “Photo Friday,” we came across this photo from our recent trip to Uganda of an anaesthetist, (who we met during a training session there) reading over our new UAM User Guide. This always makes...
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Function Friday: A Dual Purpose Anaesthesia Machine
By Dr. Paul M. Fenton Most anaesthesia machines are of the ‘supply only’ type. This means they can only supply anaesthetic gas to the patient breathing system (typically a circle system with soda lime)...
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Photo Friday: Access to Surgery is a Human Right
For this Photo Friday, (which you can also find every Friday on our Twitter feed, @GradianHealth) we are reminded that 2 billion people worldwide have no basic access to surgical care. With the UAM, we...
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10 Technologies Making An Impact
In order for a product or idea to make a sustainable impact in the world, it should be designed with the specific environment or setting in mind. With the Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM), we take...
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Riders for Health – Making Things Very Boring
Gradian is pleased to publish our first guest blog post below from Riders for Health CEO, Andrea Coleman. Riders is a social enterprise working to ensure that health workers in Africa have access to...
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Function Friday: The UAM’s Low-Resistance Vaporizer
By Dr. Paul M. Fenton The UAM is equipped with a low-resistance vaporiser that regulates the delivery of the volatile agent. Every anaesthesia machine needs a vaporiser to meter the dose of volatile...
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Anaesthesia Champions: Hosea Cheruiyot Kiptoo (Somaliland)
This summer, as part of our “Anaesthesia Champions” series, we are featuring RNA (Resident Nurse Anaesthetist), Hosea Cheruiyot Kiptoo, who is currently working at the Edna Adan University Hospital in...
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A Film for Global Surgery
“It’s not a luxury – it’s a right.” This is one of the many poignant lines that stands out in this incredible new documentary film, “The Right To Heal“, by Director/Global Surgery advocate, Dr. Jaymie...
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Photo Friday: Infrastructure in the Developing World
Substandard infrastructure is a common problem, particularly in rural hospitals in Africa. The World Bank estimates that hospitals in low-income countries lose power on average of 18 times per month....
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Anaesthesia Champions: 5 Questions for Dr. Mpoki Ulisubisya
This fall, as part of our quarterly “Anaesthesia Champions” blog series, we are pleased to feature a true champion of global anaesthesia, Dr. Mpoki Ulisubisya, of Tanzania. Dr. Ulisubisya, a Cardiac...
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If a Piece of Equipment Breaks in a Hospital and There’s No One to Fix it,...
By Mike Miesen No. It’s broken. Spend any time speaking with a physician or administrator at a hospital in Uganda – or, really, in any country in Sub-Saharan Africa – and, without fail, the topic of...
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