Abstract
Five billion of the world’s seven billion people do not have access to safe anaesthesia and surgical care when needed, and this is in part due to major deficiencies in the global anaesthesia workforce. The paper by Burton et al. in this issue highlights many issues relating to the development of the anaesthesia workforce in a low-resource setting and recent rapid developments in anaesthesia in the global health field. The authors have used a model of advocacy, collaboration, partnership and perseverance to support the development of a training programme at Jimma University Medical Centre in Ethiopia. This article follows well from an earlier article in this journal on critical care delivery at Jimma by the same authors.