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COVID-19 Information for Low Resource Settings
This site is intended to provide information for anesthesia providers working in a limited-resource setting caring for patients with COVID-19. If there is any topic you would like to see included or useful information (including pictures) you would like to share please contact Francis Peel.
A conversation with women in anaesthesia
Historically, women have always been underrepresented in medicine. Even though women make up 50% of the physicians in training and 78% of the medical workforce they still only account for a third of physicians within the workforce. Despite, anesthesiology seeing a steady increase in the number of residents who are women, there is still a significantly faster increase in terms of women graduating medical school than those becoming anaesthesia residents.
Human Rights Day 2019 – Is anaesthesia a human right?
Human Rights Day on 10 December commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This document proclaimed the inalienable rights to which everyone is entitled to as a human being, including access to adequate medical care, regardless of their location or socio economic status.
Distinguished Service Awards 2020 Winners
The Distinguished Service Award is conferred on individuals who have made a special contribution to the Art or Science of Anaesthesiology; helped promote or establish Anaesthesia initiatives anywhere in the world, or to a Council or Committee member who has provided exceptional service in this or another capacity to the WFSA and the international anaesthesia community. The WFSA is proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Distinguished Service Awards:
Palestine Anaesthesia Teaching Mission
With less than two doctors per 1000 people, access to safe anaesthesia and surgery services in Palestine is extremely limited. This access is made all the more difficult by the severe restrictions on travel that reduce the mobility of medical providers and patients alike.
