Laerdal Global Health

09/10/2025

Resuscitators receive medical device approval in India 🇮🇳

We’re excited to share that our Upright Resuscitator (including Upright with PEEP), NeoNatalie Resuscitator, and Newborn Masks have officially received medical device approval in India.

This milestone means these life-saving products will now be more easily accessible to healthcare workers across India, supporting safer and more effective newborn care.

As global regulatory requirements evolve to enhance patient safety, we’re proud that Laerdal continues to meet these standards, staying true to our mission of helping save lives.

06/10/2025

📢 Calling FIGO Member Societies 👇

Together with FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics), at their World Congress, we have launched a campaign calling on Member Societies to apply to receive birthing simulators to support projects and programs.

The aim: to improve access to vital hands-on training for those managing births in low-and middle-income settings, in turn improving the care mothers and babies receive on the day of birth.

➡️ Learn more and apply: https://laerdalglobalhealth.com/lgh-and-figo-bogo-campaign-2025

05/10/2025

Every mother deserves safe care during childbirth — especially when a cesarean section is medically necessary.

The MamaBirthie CS simulator is designed to help healthcare providers strengthen their skills in managing both normal births and cesarean births.

Why use MamaBirthie CS for hands-on training?

- Portable and cost-effective
- Specifically designed for hands-on, simulation-based training
- Ideal for low-dose, high-frequency on-site practice
- Builds competence and confidence to manage normal and complicated births

At , we’re proud to showcase how MamaBirthie CS is helping train healthcare providers around the world with the skills they need to save lives.

Are you attending in Cape Town? 👉 Visit us at Booth 70 to experience MamaBirthie CS first hand.

03/10/2025

These are the faces of survival.

Mothers who experienced postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) after giving birth, often in low-resource settings where the odds were stacked against them.

So, what made the difference?

Each of these women had a health worker by their side: someone trained, confident, and prepared to act in an emergency. Thanks to hands-on simulation training and effective educational tools, these health workers were equipped to manage life-threatening complications like PPH.

⚠️ But here’s the challenge:

Globally, maternal mortality is stagnating. Progress is falling short. Every day, women continue to lose their lives to preventable causes like postpartum hemorrhage.

We know what works. Now we need to scale it.

Let these faces remind us: survival shouldn’t depend on geography. Every mother deserves a safe birth and every health worker deserves the tools to make that possible.

02/10/2025

What does simulation training at its best really look like?

If you're signed up to our quarterly newsletter, then you would have already been able to:

📽️ Watch an exclusively recorded 'keynote speech' from lead Safer Births Bundle of Care researcher, Hege Langli Ersdal, exploring how simulation contributed to the success of this program
📖 Read insights from simulation expert Kjetil Torgeirsen, about the way SimBegin (a university accredited simulation facilitator training course) is being embedded into programs, globally.
💡 Discover where over 900 birthing simulators are heading to improve the education of nurses and midwives
🔦 Learn more about a new digital solution, LIFT Scenarios: a tool that promises to elevate the quality of simulation training.

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23/09/2025

This week LGH CEO Karoline Linde Myklebust and Eivind Fjeldstad, Director of Advocacy, are in New York for — one of the most important annual global gatherings for advancing diplomacy, development, and global health.

Why does UNGA matter?

Because with less than 5 years left to achieve the , funding cuts and conflict are putting millions of lives at risk — especially the most vulnerable – mothers and babies in low-income countries.

We’re in NY to advocate for:
✅ Urgent action on maternal and newborn health
✅ Catalyzing partnerships
✅ Investment in scalable, sustainable, and proven programs

We’re focused on supporting the global scale-up of two evidence-based programs:

Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) — empowering healthcare workers to manage the leading causes of maternal and newborn death, including postpartum hemorrhage and birth asphyxia. A recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 40% reduction in newborn deaths and a 75% reduction in maternal deaths after program implementation.

World Health Organization (WHO)’s Basic Emergency Care (BEC) — a proven program has the potential to reduce deaths from time-critical emergencies by half, now scaling across 5 African countries with more to come, if funding goals are achieved.

At Laerdal, our mission is clear: helping save one million lives every year. We’re working with governments, partners, and funders to keep preventable deaths at the forefront of the global health agenda.

19/09/2025

🚀 Exciting news from Ethiopia!

Earlier this month, a new state-of-the-art simulation lab was inaugurated by Ethiopia’s Minister of Health at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC).

To ensure sustainable and optimal use of the Simulation center, in collaboration with the St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) and SPHMMC OB/GYN faculties, our colleagues facilitated a SimBegin training.

These trainings equip OB/GYN, midwifery, and nursing mentors and trainers with hands-on skills to facilitate reflective simulation and debriefing sessions— aiming to build competence and confidence of healthcare providers to provide quality care for mothers and babies.

Our partnership with SPIRHR is focused on strengthening healthcare education through skills- and simulation-based learning, with the aim to:

✨Establish a high-quality simulation lab where service providers can practice and master essential technical skills.

✨Improve the quality of pre-service education through hands-on training for novice learners.

✨Provide continuous medical education for Sexual Reproductive Health and Maternal Newborn Health service providers.

Together, we’re working to help healthcare providers deliver lifesaving care when it matters most — creating a safer future for mothers and newborns across Ethiopia. 🌍

18/09/2025

With over 30 years of experience in public health, Alemnesh Reta has dedicated her work to helping save lives in Ethiopia and beyond. A trained midwife with a Master’s degree in Public Health, Alemnesh has been with Laerdal Global Health for nearly a decade as Implementation Manager for Ethiopia.

Alemnesh was instrumental in providing technical support in the development and implementation of the Saving Little Lives program, a flagship program by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, aimed at saving small and sick newborns. The program has been hailed as a flagship model for future interventions in the country.

Based out of our headquarters in Norway, Alemnesh is currently working in Ethiopia. Stay tuned for some exciting updates from the country!

17/09/2025

🌍 Today is World Patient Safety Day 🌍

This year’s theme is close to our hearts: "Safe care for every newborn and every child."✨

Every year, 2.3 million babies die due to childbirth complications. Most of these deaths occur in low-income countries, and many are preventable.

We know what works:

✅ Well-trained and equipped healthcare workers
✅ Simulation-based training can save lives

Through simulation-based education, mentorship, and onsite refresher training, we’re committed to supporting what we know works, like the Safer Births Bundle of Care program that has proven results published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing:

📉 45% decrease in newborn deaths
📉 70% decrease in maternal deaths

Together, we can help raise awareness, advocate for change, and catalyze action to ensure the most vulnerable -- newborns and mothers in low-income countries -- avoid preventable deaths.
Together, we can help save more lives.

Learn more 👇
https://saferbirths.com/

13/09/2025

This is Edul.

Born at just 30 weeks and weighing only 1000 grams, Edul was born during the crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, when the healthcare system had collapsed.

But even during this difficult time, there was a beacon of hope.
Led by the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, the Saving Little Lives program continued to operate, delivering care to the most vulnerable small and sick newborns.

These babies are especially at risk of sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by infection. Globally, sepsis affects 50 million people every year.

One key component of the Saving Little Lives program, Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), is a simple but powerful intervention that has been shown to help prevent sepsis in newborns.

Today, on , we share Edul’s story to raise awareness of sepsis prevention and the lifesaving impact of KMC.

🎥 Watch the story: https://vimeo.com/1118306874

This is "Saving Little Lives: Edul's Survival Story" by Laerdal Global Health on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

09/09/2025

🌏 Strengthening Basic Emergency Care in the Pacific Islands 🌟

The World Health Organization (WHO)'s Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course integrated with Laerdal’s Emergency Care Learning Lab (ECLL) was recently used to train healthcare providers across 15 Pacific Island nations.

The Fiji-based training was facilitated by the Regional Emergency and Critical Care Systems Strengthening Initiative (RECSI), a partnership of healthcare organizations working to strengthen emergency and critical care systems across the Pacific and supported by the Australian Government.

The result?
🌟 33 provisional facilitators
🌟 6 registered facilitators
🌟 3 master trainers

These newly certified trainers are now equipped to deliver lifesaving skills to their colleagues and communities, thanks to hands-on simulation training and donated kits.

“This knowledge will make a significant difference in communities and their response to emergency cases,” said Vivian Notte, a nurse from Nauru.

Together, we’re building resilient health systems and stronger emergency care capacity for the future.

Read more 👇https://laerdalglobalhealth.com/Resources/news/strengthening-basic-emergency-care-in-the-pacific-islands/

04/09/2025

✨ How can simulation transform healthcare training? ✨

In our latest Partner Q&A, we spoke with Kjetil Torgeirsen, PhD fellow and training programs leader at the SAFER Simulation Center, Norway, about how his work and research are shaping best practices in simulation-based education.

Learn how an evidence-based introduction to simulation program, SimBegin, has been used with the Safer Births Bundle of Care program to:

✅ Foster a culture of safe learning
✅ Improve outcomes for mothers and newborns
✅ Set the standard for simulation training at its best

Read the full Q&A here 👉
https://laerdalglobalhealth.com/Resources/news/partner-qa-kjetil-torgeirsen-safer/