Great and glad tidings!
Lifebox isn’t a faith-based organization, but you don’t need to tell us twice about the true meaning of Christmas. Hope and renewal, sacrifice...
Uganda
Lifebox is working in Uganda to bring pulse oximeters to all operating theatres.
Filling the vacuum
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of childhood death worldwide. What does that have to do with safe surgery? Nothing explicitly....
Counting to save lives
In less than two minutes, Christine Nanyanzi can convince you that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a vital tool for saving...
Expecting
Pauline Agwang, 34, is the only anaesthetic officer at her facility in Eastern Uganda. Away for just four days during the Lifebox...
“What am I going to do?”
Philip Ongom’s old pulse oximeter finally stopped working last February during an emergency caesarian section. Ask him about that moment and the...
Journeys
Road traffic accidents in Uganda are frequent and brutal. Two years ago, the anaesthesia community at Mulago Regional Referral Hospital, the largest...
Anaesthesia in Uganda
Anaesthesia providers in Uganda lack access to almost everything that we take for granted in developed world practice: basic drugs, monitoring equipment,...
