What’s she talking about…? We’ve worked in Zimbabwe since 2012, supporting health workers with essential equipment and training. So we’re excited to be back in Harare this week, delivering life-saving safe anaesthesia and WHO Surgical Safety Checklist training – and for the first time, bringing together clinicians from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda and South Africa to help build a […]
Faye Evans: Hi guys, thanks for coming. Thanks for letting me interview you, I really appreciate it. Do I have permission to record you? Just to make sure that’s OK with both of you? Danai Marange and Tsitsi Chimhundu: Yes, that’s fine. Faye: I’m Faye Evans. I’m a member of the global council at Lifebox. […]
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, specifically in Bulawayo the second largest city in the country affectionately known as ‘The City of Kings.’ For half my life I lived in this beautiful city, with its wide roads, tree lined boulevards and beautiful parks. Bulawayo was once the country’s industrial hub and is still called, […]
What motivated you to apply for the Lifebox Fellowship? Working in a low-resource setting has been a long-standing ambition of mine, but I wanted to ensure I had the technical skills, maturity and support to deal with the complex challenges I would undoubtedly face. The Lifebox fellowship was appealing to me because it is a […]
Last month we… Honored the importance of global surgery stories as we witnessed the Checklist Effect receive its fourth award at the Global Cinema Film Festival in Boston Celebrated International Women’s Day by sharing perspectives of our inspiring female safer surgery and anaesthesia champions around the world #IWDSurgery #BeBoldForChange Partnered with the AAGBI, the WFSA […]
Over the last few months, I have been volunteering for Lifebox to map the distribution of their lifesaving piece of equipment – the pulse oximeter. Their new interactive map plots the exact location of each oximeter that Lifebox donates to health facilities around the globe. I translated distribution sheets, interpreting the raw scrawl of hundreds […]
The late Dr Vincent James Hughes was a Canadian anesthesiologist who dedicated his professional life to improving anaesthesia care worldwide. He spent ten years working in the West Indies; ten as a physician-anesthesiologist in Zimbabwe, and ten back home at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where he continued to support outreach programmes in low-resource settings. […]
We will post these interviews as quickly as we can to raise awareness about what partners face as they care for patients in already resource-constrained contexts. We are paying special attention to the work of anesthesia providers who in addition to being essential for surgery, also manage critical and intensive care units in many parts […]
On 21 April 2020, Dr. Abebe Bekele of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda chaired a webinar of global experts to discuss ‘Guidance for Perioperative Preparedness in Sub-Saharan Africa During COVID-19’ as published in Annals of Surgery and responded to viewer questions.
