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It’s late on a Monday and l’ve been scrolling through my Twitter feed for the past hour. I don’t normally spend this much time on one Twitter session but it’s almost as if I’m reading a book that I just…
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Ray Towey is –
(c) African Mission In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by…
Going back to Ghana
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering…
Putting anaesthesia on the map
This is a map of where to find fish in Lake Malawi. The 3 million year old basin lapping against the ‘The Warm Heart of Africa”s eastern border has a unique biodiversity of cold-blooded residents.
Comic Time Out
Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision.
A two-way street
You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know,…
What’s it like to volunteer at Lifebox?
“In every aspect of life, the phrase ‘the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know’ seems to ring true – yet in the context of volunteering with Lifebox on my…
Hej hej E.S.A!
Their conference sets up shop in a different European city each year. In 2012 we put our best bisou forward making introductions in Paris… …last year we said hola to old acquaintances in Barcelona, and this year……
The humanity in humanitarian
But what else could they do? It’s the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, when MSF concluded that “you can’t stop genocide with doctors.” The current situation in Central African Republic (…
A life-affirming measurement
Spot the Lifebox So we were predisposed to like Rotary, and that’s before you factor in the amazing work they’ve been helping us with over the last year! As we wrote in the April issue of Rotary Today (you can…
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