Daniela Kietzmann MD, PhD, DESAIC is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. She did her specialist training at the University Hospital of Göttingen, Germany. For over 20 years, Dr Kietzmann has taken regular trips to East Africa, visiting several remote hospitals to share her expertise. In 2009 she worked as the only Anaesthesiologist at St. Benedict’s Referral Hospital, Ndanda, Tanzania and has been a visiting Anaesthetist at Ndanda Hospital as well as at St. Walburg’s Hospital, Nyangao, Tanzania, and several other hospitals since 2010 where she provides on the job training and workshops.