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November 12, 2025 – Lifebox, the global non-profit making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, has been announced as one of 80+ organizations that were awarded funding through Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call,…
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…
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…
“Before the introduction of oxygen monitors it was not the surgery that was dangerous, it was the anaesthesia. People would suffocate because they were not getting enough oxygen and you wouldn’t know it till their heart stopped. Sometimes surgeons would…
Lifebox was recently featured on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 when Dr Isabeau Walker highlighted the need to improve obstetric anaesthesia safety around the world. For more information or to listen again, click here.
Don’t forget to take a look at our Lifebox Twitter feed: @safersurgery. We are tweeting about healthcare developments around the world, from free maternal care in Sierra Leone to new developments in patient safety research. Follow us…
The NWAC World Anesthesia Congress is starting in Rome, Italy, this week and will continue until 15 April 2011. To download the conference programme and for more information, click here.
This Saturday, 2 April 2011, sees the second annual conference on surgery and anaesthesia in Uganda. Held at the Paetzold Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, the conference features presentations from leading healthcare practitioners in Uganda and Canada, including Dr Angela…
