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October 23, 2025 – In a new chapter for global surgical safety, Lifebox, the global safer surgery and anesthesia nonprofit, elected two leading voices in global health, Professor Thomas G. Weiser and…
We are excited to share that Lifebox’s work has been featured in the latest edition of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) Bulletin. The article shines a powerful light on the strength and resilience of surgical…
Clean cut in Honduras
Your pulse oximeter was specially designed by experts at the World Health Organization and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. It is robust and easy to use, but very occasionally you may experience some basic issues with the device. We…
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…
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 South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA) is the latest organization to join the Make It 0 campaign – and they don’t hang about. You can read all about SASA’s enthusiastic support for Lifebox in a letter…
The latest special issue of the CJA, focused on innovation in perioperative patient safety, covers such favourite Lifebox topics as checklists, anaesthesia in low-resource settings, and quality and safety in healthcare. Several contributors of these important articles…
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…
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We are delighted to announce that Lifebox is now a member of the UK’s Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB). Joining the 1,400 other fundraising organizations signed up to the FRSB, means that we will have…
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…
In 2012 Lifebox was selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity for the second year in a row. The campaign raised more than £27,000, and will enable us to support more than 160 additional operating theatres…
