Kybele Outreach

Kybele is a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to improving childbirth conditions worldwide. The OAA is committed to supporting Kybele, both financially and in providing lecturers for the overseas teaching programmes.  Visit the Kybele website.    The OAA's representative is Dr Vicki Clark (contact through OAA Secretariat or via the member's area 'search').

Typically, a multi-national team spend two weeks in a location where they provide both formal and hands-on tuition in relevant obstetric anaesthetic techniques. Recent visits have been to Mongolia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Egypt. 

Read about the group visiting Georgia and Armenia in 2007 (courtesy of Simon Millar and Anaesthesia News)

In April 2008 three OAA members (Vicki Clark, Ratnasabapathy Sashidharan and David Levy) were part of the group (pictured below) lecturing and teaching in Egypt.   

Apologia:  A personal account from a member of the 2008 Kybele trip to Egypt was recently placed erroneously on this website. This report was not an official OAA review of the project and we apologise unreservedly for any irritation, distress or embarrassment caused by this document. The OAA is very supportive of Kybele's activities in Egypt and elsewhere and looks forward to further collaboration in the future.