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Nice. Hello. I'm just gonna check. Hello. Very good evening, everyone. Thank you for taking the time to join us for the global webinar series today. Uh Is everybody able to give me a thumbs up if you're able to hear me? Mm. Or say hi in the church. Hello. Oh, perfect, great. So my name is I'm the gas of president and I'm joined by MS Vina who is our gas vice president. We're very excited to have Doctor Tim Fabris and you from Asca Cameroon speak for us. But first, I'll just give you a little introduction to those of you who might be new to gas. So please say hi to us in the chat. Tell us where you're from. Um, essentially Gas O which stands for Global Anesthesia surgery and obstetric Collaboration is a trainee based uh organization that is uh mainly based in the UK and Ireland. And we have an international membership that's spread out across the world. So for our global webinar series, we hope to keep the same style of our previous journal clubs in bringing you the latest cutting edge research and authors who are able to come share their work but we have now broadened our scope to include presentations from international speakers that might be able to highlight some excellent examples of good uh clinical care service delivery uh within low middle income settings and hopefully bring to you more opportunities to discuss about trainee engagement within global surgery. So without further ado I'm gonna hand over to reach her now and then she can give us an introduction to doctor. Thank you. Hello, everyone. I am delighted to welcome Dr Tim Fabric Tian to this webinar, the first ever um webinar. So doctor T is from Cameroon. He was born in Bamenda, which is in the northwest region of Cameroon where he completed primary and secondary education. He holds a BSC in biomedical sciences and an MD degree and has trained as a drone surgeon from the University of Yaunde. He also holds an MSC in global health with global surgery, obtained from King's College London. He has worked in different district, rural hospitals in Cameroon as a general practitioner where he managed and delivered public health programs, primary and emergency and delivered primary and emergency surgical and non surgical care to patients with often limited resources. He has other experience in management policy building and humanitarian delivery, which was gained as working as an intern for the World Health Organization, King's Sierra Leone Partnership for and so development volunteering with as Cameroon to deliver humanitarian care in conflict and post conflict settings in Cameroon and Sierra Leone he is a global surgery advocate and he was a speaker at the Global Surgery Summer School 2018 at the Royal Society of Medicine King's College Surgical Society Annual Conference. He was one of the international fellows for the Royal College of Surgeons of England under the Humanitarian Surgery Initiative. 2022 2023 he is currently a consultant general surgeon in the digestive and emergency surgical units at Ya Central Hospital. And he is also a volunteer general surgeon and global surgery lead with as Cameroon in delivering human and social care and coordinating the surgical simulation project. He is also an assistant lecturer of surgery in the University of Binda Faculty of Health Sciences. He is married a father of three kids and he's fluent in English and French and is also found of Chelsea football club and PWD Binda Football Club. We must agree that's a very impressive resume and we're so honored to have you here to uh speak um at this webinar, Doctor Tim. So without further ado, I'll give you the floor and let you share your presentation with us. Thank you. Thank you for the present uh presenting me and uh um listening to it, I don't think, I think it's somebody else sometimes. So thank you very much for the quick summary. I will, I will be presenting uh for the next hour, our experience at Esco. We wish to share with you a global surgery and a maternal surgery intervention in Africa. And we're looking at, in the case of that is particles and, uh, within the, the, the for five minutes period, they will discover how, uh, particularly as, uh, as we speak. So I'll try to make it as, uh, concise as possible. There's a, there are lots of things to be said about a eco and I chose a format to use a lot of pictures and for you to actually see and to uh walk with us through our journey as we carry out our different activities and uh I will uh see a lot of pictures mean that we are probably be sharing some sensitive content. So have been sought from all the patients whose pictures will be shared with you this event for and they have been informed that their pictures may be used for educational purposes in healthcare context as we have a stimulation center. And we have made a way for this evening to try to uh maintain confident confidentiality uh as we present in different face of our experience. So as covi uh it's an acronym for in French, that means as if translating in English, it means skills for a better life. So as the name speaks for itself, it's a group of volunteers under uh under the banner who come with different life skills, not only medical skills, life skills to who want to help their communities who want to help people in different sides of the world and who just uh come with us and bring these skills along with them to try to, I mean, the life of others uh who are less privileged than themselves. So as was founded by a general surgeon who is called Doctor George. Sometimes we refer to him as George of the jungle because he's really alter all the time in the bushes. Even now this evening, as I speak to you, he's on the way to north because there's a medical condition he organized there and there are surgeries that are already program and not for profit because of compassion, solidarity, integrity. And we always for excellent in what we do. We are existing for more than 15 years now. Uh uh We are volunteer led initiative with the aim to elevate po poverty through interventions targeting uh strengthening healthcare systems and uh preventing catastrophic expenditure for for patients when they are in need of healthcare, supporting education projects in most of er communities in Cameroon. And uh for the past week, I was building professionals through the on the so um is to improve access to free specialized me out. And uh we believe that being if we do can do more, we can do less. So we are moving away from the primary health care uh sector where many people are focused when many interventions are focused to go to more specialized medical care. And uh we wish also to provide education and support to pupils and schools in the most uh difficult access areas in Cameroon. And uh health strengthening has been one of our main objectives in the past two years through the provision of training and skills acquisitions to help professionals through a simulation program that has been running for for the past two years and has received a lot of positive feedback from uh lots of partners and their collaborators. So our organization structure is tailored to the activities that we carry out. So we divide it into three different parts, the healthcare delivery uh through our mobile clinics and educational campaigns, uh educational support to schools and uh peoples in rural communities and the medical training. Uh and all of these with the central coordination that oversees all the different activities and a single uh funding stream that we usually use. So we will, I'll take you through a different activity with you. As I said, it's a smaller journey. You just come along me. So uh our healthcare activities really multiple uh sectors uh with the major intervention for the uh the was created being surgery. This is not bias was surgery, but it was just because uh the, the, the, the founder was, was a surgeon. So he already had these skills that he could put in, put into use. And