Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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.
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.
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,…
“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…
