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The DAK Foundation has been supporting birth injury repair, specifically in pelvic organ prolapse in Bangladesh and Nepal since 2014. Through PFE  we have funded over 10,000 prolapse surgeries for poor, disadvantaged women and provided training for over 20 doctors…

Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) has been working in Bangladesh since 1993 and their mission is to improve the lives of disadvantaged people and their communities. We work with IFB with a project called ‘Proshanti’ (which means enjoying peace and tranquillity). The aim…

Introduction Oxygen is a medicine, and oxygen therapy is a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis and now Covid-19 Pneumonia is one of the biggest infectious killers of children, claiming over 800,000 young lives every year Improved oxygen delivery…

There is a huge backlog of simple sight restoring surgeries in Myanmar due to decades of neglect, environmental conditions and increasing life expectancy. Tipitaka Cakkupala Eye Hospital (TCEH), Htee Saung is a community based hospital that is well positioned to…

The World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank expect that by 2026, the burden of diseases requiring surgery and anaesthesia will eclipse that of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria (measured in disability adjusted life-years). However surgery and anaesthetic care has long…