Updates

Lifebox is strongly committed to addressing inequities both within our organization and in the global surgery community. We have set ambitious goals for investing in staff, leadership, and innovation in the regions where we work to reduce our footprint in high-income countries. 

As cases of COVID-19 surged in India, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) provided a rapid-response grant towards Lifebox’s India COVID-19 emergency efforts.

Lifebox congratulates Dr. Atul Gawande on his nomination by President Biden to the United States Agency for International Development.

Distributing pulse oximeters across Afghanistan for essential monitoring of COVID-19 patients in rural areas.

Video guide on the appropriate use of pulse oximeters to monitor COVID-19 patients at home, and when to seek professional help in English, French, Spanish, and Hindi

An interview with Dr. Suleiman on the enormous challenges in Liberia in providing safe surgery and anesthesia.

Anesthesiologist, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient.

Lifebox is providing direct assistance to our anesthesia partners in Maharashtra – one of India’s worst affected states – and where Lifebox has worked with anesthesia and surgical partners for the past five years. In the district of Nanded, we…

Lifebox impact in Burundi highlighted in new study in the South African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia - with 89% per cent of hospitals having a Lifebox pulse oximeter.

Dr. Buowari talks to Lifebox on safe anesthesia in Nigeria and her work responding to COVID-19 and pulse oximetry.