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Online Global Surgery & Anaesthesia Symposium 2018

Hello everyone, This is my first blog as a student representative for Lifebox! How did I get involved with Lifebox – and why? My interest in global surgery and anaesthesia and equality in healthcare stemmed from my experiences in charity work particularly in Cambodia. My time there was spent teaching health and English to children […]

The Champion of Champions

Dr Surajit Giri has a special place in Lifebox’s heart. His facility – Demow Community Health Centre – was the first to receive a Lifebox pulse oximeter as part of our grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, […]

Lifebox train-the-trainers course, London

Can you join us? Earlier this year we were privileged to receive a three-year grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to help spearhead our work into India, where the safe surgery crisis is acute. We’ll be delivering Lifebox training and equipment in a number of states, but we’re no fans of ‘parachute development’. Our goal […]

Come work with Lifebox!

Excited to announce two new posts opening up this month, a Project Support Officer, and Project Manager. Click the links below to learn more, and please share widely. We’ve made surgery and anaesthesia safer for more than 10 million patients in the last six years. With our new colleagues on side, we’ll be able to do […]

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 newspaper in India you will find a story: “Death of 36 children because of lack of oxygen in […]

Lifebox Welcomes Three New Global Governance Council Members

Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. Atul Gawande, the organization utilizes tools, training, and partnerships to help improve the delivery of safe surgery globally. Lifebox’s flagship program developed a low-cost and low-resource-adapted pulse oximeter for monitoring patients during anesthesia and has now put the Lifebox pulse oximeter in […]

Governance

The Global Governance Council oversees the Lifebox team and safer surgery vision

Lifebox at the 2019 World Congress of Surgery in Krakow!

Dr Andrew Hill – The outgoing Society President of ISS/SIC and World Congress of Surgery President 2019 – on WCS 2019 and supporting Lifebox   Dr Kathleen Casey Surgeon and Secretary, Executive Committee The G4 Alliance, outgoing President of the The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence   Dr Zipporah Gathuya, Anesthesiologist, The Nairobi Hospital, […]