BFIRST plans to visit the ALERT Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2026. Rececca Shirley and James Chan, from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK, will be delivering a microsurgical... Read More
The BFIRST team travelled to Georgetown, Guyana 22nd-28th January 2025 and were based at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Our goals before embarking on this trip, were to nurture... Read More
What's the need?
The initial approach was through the early days of BFIRST. A request was made for support in education and training in the field of Congenital Hand and Paediatric Hand... Read More
What’s the need?
Nepal is a long thin country stretching across the Himalayas North East of India, sandwiched between India and China. It has a population of 31 million of which 1.4 million live... Read More
Aims
Our principal aims are:
Teaching and Training of Local Teams
Capacity Building and Coordination of Local Teams
We aimed to achieve this through:
Continuing... Read More
Planning is underway for a joint BFIRST and Interburns trip to the Gambia in November this year. Updates to follow.
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Planning is underway for a BFIRST-Lusaka University Hospital collaboration in Zambia. We will keep you updated.
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What’s the need?
Zimbabwe is a low income country with huge economic and health challenges. A previously robust health system has been downgraded by hyper-inflation, mismanagement, loss of... Read More