The Checklist Effect: Global Surgery Summer School
As a final year at medical school in the UK, one of the required reflections for my surgical rotation is on the use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. I observed the Checklist’s use in theatre…
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Meet Dr Someshwar Patange
Here we learn more about his mission – “safe anaesthesia equals safer surgery.” Can you talk about some of the challenges that anaesthesia providers face in delivering safe surgical care in your region? If you see today’s…
Mapping Our Impact
Over the last few months, I have been volunteering for Lifebox to map the distribution of their lifesaving piece of equipment – the pulse oximeter. Their new interactive map plots…
India – The Next Step
From western India, to the east. Next on the itinerary was the north-eastern state of Bihar. As the traffic of the state’s capital – Patna – gave way to dirt roads and palm-studded countryside, the rugged beauty of Bihar was…
India – One Step at a Time
It seemed like fate that I landed in India exactly ten years to the day that I first arrived as a fresh-faced backpacker. One decade later, and hopefully a little wiser, I was back as part of my remit at…
Meet Dr Rediet Shimeles
Throughout her career she’s worked tirelessly to provide safer anaesthesia care for patients in her community, and to support colleagues at Black Lion Hospital through delivering essential training. And she’s just getting started… Why did you choose to become an…
Oximeters keep beeping in Madagascar
We’ve been privileged to support incredible teams across the country since 2015, when we joined the world’s largest floating NGO hospital, Mercy Ships on a visit inland to deliver…
A report from Manchester MedX 2017
In March, I had the opportunity to help run a workshop for Lifebox at the student run MedX Conference in Manchester. The theme of the conference was the ‘Future of Healthcare’, a topic which inspires not only medics. With over…
From med student to lead author
But how do you find yourself lead author on the latest research to prove it so? Lifebox spoke with Dr Vanessa Albert, junior doctor (and medical student at the time of research) about her experiences bridging implementation and academia.
The invisible thread
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, specifically in Bulawayo the second largest city in the country affectionately known as ‘The City of Kings.’ For half my life I lived in this beautiful city, with its wide roads, tree lined…
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