No. No gas.

Forget it. He's still circling the airport.

I'll give you a local anaesthetic.

I'll give you a local anesthetic.

You got to put me back under now!

I'll give you anaesthesia.

No gas. No. Don't put...

We're going to have to put her out.

I will take the bandages off.

Now you've heard me mention oxygen a few times at this point.

I want them to think, Well there's some hope.

The surgeon was on call and scrubbed in.

He was put under anesthesia.

It's a pretty expensive machine.

The surgery on offer was pretty gruesome.

And what he came up with was this guy.

And it's by design.

Don't worry, we'll knock him out. He won't feel a thing.

Patients are still on the operating room table.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

In the meanwhile, the patient's on the operating room table.

So this woman comes in and she's taken into the operating room.

And I came to in the morning.

I mean who would put themselves through that?

It needs an extremely well trained anesthesiologist with years of training with complex machines to help her monitor the flows of the gas and keep her patients safe and anesthetized throughout the surgery.

I'm lucky, I never died but many die.

He went to work every day in an operating theater like this one, trying to deliver anesthesia and teach others how to do so using that same equipment that became so unreliable, and frankly unsafe, in his hospital.

They have a really cool anesthesia simulation lab out in Baltimore.

Thankfully, baby was out mother and child survived.

So I've talked a lot about anesthesia, and I tend to do that.

And the hospital and GE were happy too.

The second time was a procedure that involved local anesthesia.

But the nurse is literally running around a darkened operating theater trying to find anything she can use to anesthetize her patient, to keep her patient asleep.

I don't like to see animals suffer even in cartoons.

It's also designed for the environment that it will be used in.

And finally, it's affordable.

There will be two passes here, in the same patient, from the same hole.

In the hospital and in the entire region there's not a single biomedical engineer.

In the background there is a very sophisticated anesthesia machine.

I'm a senior resident in anesthesia in intensive care at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

And that's my specialty, right?

These were folks that traveled from village to village, town to town, doing surgery sort of as a form of performance art.

Nitrous oxide stopped being used as an anaesthetic a long time ago.

We had the pause points immediately before anesthesia is given, immediately before the knife hits the skin, immediately before the patient leaves the room.

So when this machine breaks, the machines that they have to work with break, they've got to try and figure it out, but most of the time, that's the end of the road.