Sierra Leone
Scott Farmery, MD Consultant Anaesthetist
at Makeni Hospital, Sierra Leone
Two weeks ago, an email dropped into my hospital inbox in London. It was clearly quite persuasive because, as a direct result, I’m now sitting in a remote hospital in Sierra Leone typing this. Today's star patient is three-year-old Abubakar who had the badly contracted burn scar on his hand released and grafted by Nanak, a plastic surgeon from Birmingham I'd never met before this trip. Abubakar slept comfortably through the whole procedure with some ketamine sedation and an ultrasound-guided arm block.
The email had…