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<\/span><\/p>\nThis week Kids Operating Room, Scotland<\/a>, who the ASF are proud to partner with as a directed giving project of the Foundation, shared the wonderful update that they are on track to build and ship 30 fully equipped operating rooms in 2021, all destined for hospitals throughout Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) is the only global organization focused on providing dedicated Operating Rooms for children\u2019s surgery\u00a0\u2013 and its work has already helped save and improve the lives of tens of thousands of children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recent months have seen containers delivered to Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Zambia and Nigeria\u00a0\u2013 with a further five containers to be shipped in May and June alone.<\/span><\/p>\n To help support the work of KIDSOR visit \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0www.americanscottishfoundation.com\/kidsor.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Recent months have seen containers delivered to Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Zambia and Nigeria \u2013 with a further five containers to be shipped in May and June alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kids OR is focusing efforts on reaching countries with no \u2013 or critically low – provision for children\u2019s surgery, with deaths from treatable conditions \u2013 such as appendicitis or complications following broken bones \u2013 extremely common.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dave Tipping is Director of Global Operations and heads up the Dundee warehouse and lab. A qualified architect, he has been with the charity since it was founded in 2018, spearheading its design and delivery of operating rooms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He said: \u201cThe team here is phenomenally committed. We have a singular focus on providing extensively researched and tested rooms that will provide maximum benefit to the recipient hospital, its surgical teams, and thousands of – often desperate – families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve had to adapt considerably over the past 15 months, with it being much harder, or even impossible to get out to the locations where the projects are being delivered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEverything we do is around providing a sustainable solution. We aren\u2019t building Operating Rooms with specialist equipment that relies on our long-term support. We\u2019re here to ensure surgeons in the African continent, as well as those in countries we\u2019ve worked in previously in South America, are able to utilize each life-saving and life-changing item for the long-term.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the pandemic, Dave, Francesca and the team have found creative solutions \u2013 making use of the full scale \u2018mock\u2019 Operating Room within its Dundee warehouse, where it can test each item of equipment, as well as providing video-link demonstration. A typical Operating Room it dispatches will feature more than 3000 items, with each one having to have quality certification and instruction, as well as commodity codes, which can be different for each country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thankfully, KidsOR, which also has offices in Edinburgh and Nairobi, has a network of engineers and surgeons throughout Africa installing and testing equipment \u2013 and providing long-term support to ensure the rooms operate at their optimum once installed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It isn\u2019t purely clinically-focused \u2013 KidsOR also takes pride in ensuring that its signature colourful animals adorn the walls of each of its operating rooms it installs \u2013 helping children to feel calm and reassured as they go into surgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nicola Wood, Co-Founder of KidsOR, believes that while 2020 and 2021 have proven challenging, the team have demonstrated unwavering enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She said: \u201cRecent months have had a galvanizing effect on our team. We\u2019ve now given more than 36,000 children access to life-changing or life-saving care. Globally more children die from conditions easily treated through surgery, than from HIV, malaria and TB combined. We\u2019re helping change that by providing the equipment and training for pediatric surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYet there is still so much to do \u2013 and we won\u2019t stop until we achieve our mission \u2013 a world where every child has equal access to safe surgery. Each container leaving our Dundee hub is a step closer.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n KidsOR was founded by Nicola and Garreth Wood in 2018.\u00a0 It aims to install 120 pediatric operating rooms across Africa by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n The American-Scottish Foundation is proud to designate KidsOR as a directed giving project\u00a0<\/span>of the Foundation. The American-Scottish Foundation is a nonprofit 501c3 organization and all donations made<\/span>\u00a0through the Foundation are tax deductible in the United States to the extent of the law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n To make a donation or to learn more visit \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0www.americanscottishfoundation.com\/kidsor.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column] This week Kids Operating Room, Scotland, who the ASF are proud to partner with as a directed giving project of the Foundation, shared the wonderful update that they are on track to build and ship 30 fully equipped operating rooms in 2021, all destined for hospitals throughout Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" This week Kids Operating Room, Scotland<\/a>, who the ASF are proud to partner with as a directed giving project of the Foundation, shared the wonderful update that they are on track to build and ship 30 fully equipped operating rooms in 2021, all destined for hospitals throughout Africa.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) is the only global organization focused on providing dedicated Operating Rooms for children\u2019s surgery\u00a0\u2013 and its work has already helped save and improve the lives of tens of thousands of children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/KidsOr1.jpg\")
Despite the challenges of the past year, the seven-strong team at its Dundee depot have ramped up the curation of the rooms, which are individually designed by biomedical engineers working with in-country colleagues to ensure each aspect will meet the long-term needs of local surgeons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-27-at-2.54.05-PM.png\")
Part of the Kids OR\u2019s Dundee team includes Francesca Aras, a biomedical engineer who would typically be jetting around low and middle-income countries to determine hospitals\u2019 needs and suitability to receive a room, before working on solutions from the Scottish hub.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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