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For Trish Henwood, ultrasound use in resource limited settings is a perfect fit. Nowhere has Trish seen ultrasound have more of an effect on patient care and outcomes, and save more lives, than in resource limited contexts. Trish uses the example of a training program in Zanzibar to highlight the scope that ultrasound provides. Using ultrasound on a daily basis to the medical centre is able to screen for antenatal complications that may necessitate transfer to a setting with a higher level of care. Trish also leans of health professions recounting their experience with ultrasound. Fatma – a nurse/midwife – recounts her tales of finding many cases of molar pregnancies, placenta previa, eclampsia and ruptured ovarian cysts. Through the available resource of ultrasound, she has saved many lives (of both mothers and babies.) Gabin in Rwanda has taken the basic ultrasound training he received to diagnose a multitude of cardiac conditions in his centre and Olivier tells the story of a young man with an altered ment