Gender Equity

by Dr Ala Nazir, MD - GEIGS DEJ Lead Labour and delivery has a momentum you can sense even before you step inside. By the time we arrived for pre-rounds, the ward was already full: about fifteen women on examination tables and another twenty in the waiting room. Their families clustered just beyond the entrance, talking among themselves, settling in for the long hours ahead. Most travel from distant areas to tertiary care centres, carrying exhaustion, patience, and a kind of unspoken trust....

What do ‘I look Like, The Changing Tides, The all-male Panel, RCSI Women on the Wall and Greys Anatomy’ have in common… A blog post by Dr. Fridah Bosire August 2019, Tenwek Hospital Kenya.  Dr. Fridah Bosire with her Attendings- Dr. Andrea parker and Dr. Angela Martin, performing a complex Trans-peritoneal repair of a ruptured infra-renal Mycotic Tubercular Aneurysm. In August of 2015, thousands of female surgeons took over social media platforms with the catchphrase ‘#ILookLikeASurgeon’ to...

By Hannah Paraquett, GEIGS GA 2024 Social Media Correspondent (Edited by Riya Sawhney, GEIGS 2024 Co-Chair ) As the dust settles on the...