#GlobalHealth is not working for the people who need it most. π
Kids Operating Room won't stop until that's changed.
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And we won't stop until the work is done. π
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Every person on π deserves surgery if they need it.
Leave a π if you agree. β
Congratulations! Anybody who advocates for global health is a friend of ours. π
Thanks for sharing this important report. It's encouraging to see progress - but devastating that so many children still die from preventable causes. We must do more to support countries in building stronger, more sustainable health systems.
Safe surgery is a human right.
Garreth Wood x Madonna.
Just two global health icons. π
π Raising Malawi Fundraiser, New York.
1.7 billion children living without access to safe surgery in 2025 is incomprehensible to us. π€―
We won't stand around and let children suffer from conditions that can be cured on an operating table. β
β Access to surgery is a human right. We exist to make that happen.
Say it with us: Every π child π deserves π access π to π surgery.
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Global health was failing. β
In 2018, our founders Garreth and Nicola Wood took action. πͺ
Now, with 97 paediatric operating rooms, they've enabled over 500,000 life-changing surgeries for children in the world's lowest-resource countries. π
π We're just getting started.
Did you know: more children die from a lack of access to safe surgery than they from HIV, TB and Malaria - combined.
We exist to put an end to that.
Kids Operating Room's work now facilitates more than 200,000 operations each YEAR for children in the lowest-resource settings imaginable. π
#kidsoperatingroom just opened a new PAEDIATRIC OPERATING ROOM in #Bangladesh with @smiletrainofficial.bsky.social Weβre now creating capacity for more than 250,000 children a year to access surgeryβ¦ #khulnacity #partnership #surgeryforchildren
Completely transformed. π€©
Our new paediatric operating room in Harare, Zimbabwe, is unrecognisable. π
Zimbabwe faces limited resources and high child mortality rates. This theatre changes that. Local surgeons now have the tools to save countless children's lives. π
Hello Bluesky! π
Weβll be using this platform as part of our journey to bring safe surgery closer for every single child on the planet. π