Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Did you know that a full 11% of the global burden of violence and injury – which occurs overwhelmingly in low and lower-middle income – countries could be treated with surgery? That’s an incredible opportunity to save lives! And it’s…
“South Sudan is a brand new country, adjusting to its newfound independence. The infrastructure and the finances are not yet fully developed, and Juba Teaching Hospital frequently has no electricity or running water. However, when there is emergency surgery to…
Lifebox is standing a little taller this week – approximately 46,000 times taller! That’s the size of the American Society of Anesthesiologists membership, and you might have seen from our website that this anaesthetic colossus recently launched…
In less than two minutes, Christine Nanyanzi can convince you that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a vital tool for saving lives – and that its absence from the operating room can kill.
Philip Ongom’s old pulse oximeter finally stopped working last February during an emergency caesarian section. Ask him about that moment and the anaesthetic officer, who has worked at a district hospital in Western Uganda for six years, remembers every detail with…
Road traffic accidents in Uganda are frequent and brutal. Two years ago, the anaesthesia community at Mulago Regional Referral Hospital, the largest in the country, lost several of its own when a minibus carrying anaesthetic SHOs to…
Anaesthesia providers in Uganda lack access to almost everything that we take for granted in developed world practice: basic drugs, monitoring equipment, support staff, continuous learning. And every week they treat a nightmare caseload: ruptured uteruses, road traffic…
