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Nick Owen – Ethiopia Fellow 2015

Month 1: Before I get started, let me introduce myself. I’m Nick (on the right) the Lifebox Fellow: AKA an ST6 Anaesthetic Trainee in The Central London School of Anaesthesia (TCLSA) undertaking an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) in the delivery of clinical teaching and Quality Improvement (QI) Projects in a developing world healthcare system. […]

SAVING MOTHERS’ LIVES IN ETHIOPIA

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.

Tackling Unsafe C-sections In Ethiopia

Improving the safety of C-sections to save mothers' lives in Ethiopia with Lifebox's Clean Cut Program. This work is part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges initiative, funded by UBS Optimus Foundation

Change from the Inside: Bridging the Pulse Oximetry Gap in Ethiopia — An Interview with Daniela Rebollo Salazar on her work with Lifebox

Lifebox works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible.  Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out a pulse oximeter needs assessment for Lifebox. In this interview, Daniela shares her experiences and thoughts on the oximetry […]

Reducing Surgical Infections in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has one of the lowest measured rates of surgery in the world. As a result, surgical teams face a number of challenges on a daily basis, which can put patients at risk. In 2016, Lifebox launched our “Clean Cut” program in Ethiopia. Clean Cut is a quality improvement program that seeks to reduce surgical […]

Visit to Ethiopia

Dr Isabeau Walker, consultant anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital London, just returned from a visit with Chain of Hope to the Children’s Heart Hospital and the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa. Here is her account of the visit: “I have just returned from a visit to the Children’s Heart Hospital in Addis Ababa, […]

Evaluation of an adaptive, multimodal intervention to reduce postoperative infections following cesarean delivery in Ethiopia: study protocol of the CLEAN-CS cluster-randomized stepped wedge interventional trial

We previously developed and pilot tested Clean Cut, a program to prevent postoperative infections by improving compliance with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) and strengthening adherence to infection control practices. This protocol describes the CheckList Expansion for Antisepsis and iNfection Control in Cesarean Section (CLEAN-CS) trial evaluating our program’s ability to reduce infections following […]

MyLifesavingOximeter “makes my patients’ lives safe” in Ethiopia

Dr. Rediet Shimeles Workneh is an anesthesiologist at Ghandi Memorial hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is a true safe surgery champion, and a longtime friend of Lifebox. We recently caught up with Dr. Rediet about her Lifebox pulse oximeter, which she uses on a daily basis at her hospital.   Dr. Rediet told us […]