Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
In 2007, I embarked on a transformative journey as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia, assigned to monitor and evaluate HIV/AIDS services for a government office. Little did I know that this seemingly random assignment would blossom into a 17-year…
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Clean cut in Honduras
The Lifebox team will be at the upcoming American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual meeting in Chicago from 15-19 October this year. Find us in the ASA Resource Center and at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists’ booth in the exhibition hall. Our…
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…
Are you interested in learning more about the anaesthesia providers your donations are helping to support? Follow this link to meet the people working to save lives in the pulse oximetry gap.
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…
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has launched a campaign to raise donations for Lifebox. The campaign will help us provide pulse oximetry for thousands of people undergoing surgery in low-resource settings. Visit the Global…
Lifebox colleagues spent two weeks in Uganda from 26 June 2011, providing training on obstetrics, safe anaesthesia and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. A number of workshops were delivered at Mbarara University of Science and Technology under the direction of the…
This is Samuel Akolgo, a nurse anaesthetist at the Sandema District Hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He received one of the Lifebox pulse oximeters donated earlier this year through the partnership between Ghana Health…
The steady beep of the pulse oximeter is the hushed voice of the patient on the operating table. The team listens: surgeon, anaesthesia provider, and nurse know all is well. The same goes for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist –…
In the words of a colleague: ‘She doesn’t call a spade a spade; she calls it a shovel.’ A long-time Lifebox supporter, Dr Jacob paid us a visit in London this week. We couldn’t resist the chance…
