NEAD Foundation is delighted to announce that our independent academic initiative entered the largest multidisciplinary research collaboration with a Public sector institution of KP. SPIRE is now collaborating with ORIC in Bacha Khan Medical College, BKMC in Mardan, KP. SPIRE team is going to be working with Director, ORIC and Dean, BKMC on research addressing adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes in babies born to mothers undergoing emergency cesarian section under different modes of anesthesia. We are very thankful and appreciative of Prof. Iftikhan ud Din, Director, ORIC, BKMC and Prof. Muhammad Amjad, DEAN, BKMC for facilitating and supporting SPIRE. This study is the first of its kind and the largest multidisciplinary study in history of public sector healthcare institutions in KP.