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Steppe-by-Steppe: Safer Surgery in Mongolia
Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the…
Before and after
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as…
Science without borders, numbers with intent
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically.
Raising the dough
Thank you for visiting the Lifebox Foundation blog. Please check as appropriate: 1. I like eating cake 2. I like making cake* 3. I believe…
A medico-maritime life for me
Bon jour! (The port approach is a lot wetter than starboard entrance) The MV Africa Mercy is the largest charitable hospital ship in the world, providing free surgical services (primarily facial reconstruction, benign…
Women in the workplace
Over breakfast at the SAFE course/Lifebox training in Rwanda a few weeks ago – bread, boiled eggs, thick black coffee and milky African tea – It’s always nice to see what people have for…
The World We Want 2015
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their…
Thank you
They say that the recession is affecting charitable giving. We say, have you met the readers of the British Medical Journal. Over the last two months, a stationer’s rainbow of envelopes has greeted our mornings and a…
The Family Way
Tired of fighting a balance between work and home life? Talk to Félicité Mukeshimana. She’s an anaesthesia technician at a district hospital in Ruhango, a province in the south of Rwanda. Félicité and Fiona in their finery…
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