Island surgery – a Q&A
Caroline Kilduff is a recent graduate from Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry. She’s also a talented graphic designer, helping Lifebox with such visual feasts as our student toolkit, BMA volunteer…
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Cambodia – checks!
The research put numeric handles on a previously ungraspable crisis, and they’ve been cited ever since – vital tools in the long-push to bring global surgery onto the global health agenda. Two other things to know about the Stanford surgeon…
News from Fort Portal
Lifebox® and Uganda go way back – our very first distribution (and our very first blog!) It’s always exciting when we hear news from friends and colleagues there – particularly when they have stories…
Pulse Oximetry Pioneer Honoured by IEEE
Pioneer: “a person who is among the first to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity.” This definition stood out as we received the news that Dr Takuo Aoyagi, a Senior Manager at Nihon…
Lifebox in Bhutan
Thanks to our MAKE IT 0® partners, we’re able to send equipment and training far and wide! Bhutan may be a long way from the office, but colleagues at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) are a…
Lifebox Day 2015 – a look back
It’s been over a month since our second ever Lifebox Day which was held on Saturday 18 April. The day brought together medical professionals and trainees in the field of global surgery. Kohila…
Tanzania diary
We’re working with the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA), Life Support Foundation and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) to increase surgical safety for patients and anaesthesia providers in Tanzania. Dr Bronwyn…
Niger diary
We’re working with the Nigerian National Society of Anaesthesiology (NNSA), the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health and the Flatley Foundation to bring safer surgery and anaesthesia to every government hospital in the country. Follow along, with our…
Global Surgery Team Work
An email pings in from Boston, USA – subject: Oximeter to India? As l read Lifebox chair and co-founder Atul Gawande’s editorial published in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery…
What’s the craic?
For the third year running, Lifebox ran to sign up and attend the Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland Conference – now in its 90th year, dignified and dedicated as ever! More than…
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