Our staff, trainers, and partners are always on the move at site visits, training courses, conferences, and the like. Keep up with our updates here!
Check out our new microsite for more information on our Saving Lives at Birth project! We’ll be updating it regularly as the project gets underway. Strengthening Obstetric Care in Zambia through Anesthesia Technology & Training
At Kabwe General Hospital in Kabwe, Tanzania, the Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM) is regarded differently from other medical equipment. Mulonda Kangili, the hospital’s anesthesist, says that the UAM is “the machine that has made life easier.”
When the Tanzanian government selected Gradian’s UAM as its anesthesia machine of choice for hundreds of health facility upgrades, we knew we’d have to scale our clinical training and capacity-building in tandem. While all of our training has gotten a revamp in the past year with our adoption of a simulation training model, the remoteness […]
A week and a half ago, five of our clinical trainers came to visit our NYC offices. The team of trainers included Dr. Sipuka Ndaba and Dr. Masuzyo Zyambo from University Teaching Hospital in Zambia, Dr. Ansbert Sweetbert and Dr. Mwemezi Kaino from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania, and Dr. Howard Nelson-Williams, who works […]
If you had wandered into the Chainama College of Health Sciences in Lusaka, Zambia during the last weekend in August, you might have been confused by the excited yells emanating from one of the terra cotta tiled classrooms in Zambia’s primary nursing school. If you had followed those sounds all the way inside, you’d have […]
As of this writing, nearly *every other* medical device is the developing world is out of use (compared to <1% of devices in wealthy countries). You’d be hard-pressed to find a hospital in sub-Saharan Africa that doesn’t have a room, hallway or field stockpiled with old or broken equipment lying idly–sometimes because the machines are […]
Forty-eight-year-old Mulonda Kangili requires more oxygen than most. Though, he isn’t using it for (his own) breathing. For the past 17 years, Mr. Mulonda has worked as an anesthetist/clinical officer at Kabwe General Hospital in Kabwe, Zambia. To deliver the type of anesthesia that puts patients “to sleep” and ensures they don’t feel pain […]
It is with great sorrow that Gradian announces the passing of our colleague and friend Rob Dickinson, who died at his home last weekend after a six-month battle with melanoma. Only a month ago, we learned that Rob was named the winner of the prestigious Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award in recognition of a lifetime […]
We’re excited to unveil a new explainer video on Gradian’s mission and model! Check it out ↓↓↓
We are excited – and exceedingly proud – to announce that our friend and colleague Robert Dickinson has just been awarded the Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award presented by the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Foundation. Created to recognize individuals and organizations that have applied […]
Gradian is proud to work with professional colleagues in hospitals, governments, nonprofit organizations and local companies in 20 sub-Saharan African countries and the nation of Haiti. Since our founding, we have taken great pride in supporting the dedicated women and men who provide anesthesia, surgery and critical care to their patients. At a personal level, […]
