Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do. Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. We want to know how colleagues are doing this week with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist at our pilot site in […]
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]
In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by WHO and the WFSA for an ideal monitor to thrive in low-resource settings. We were perched on a desk in a third floor room […]
It’s late on a Monday and l’ve been scrolling through my Twitter feed for the past hour. I don’t normally spend this much time on one Twitter session but it’s almost as if I’m reading a book that I just can’t put down! The reason for this: it’s the night after International Women’s Day. March […]
For the third year running, Lifebox ran to sign up and attend the Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland Conference – now in its 90th year, dignified and dedicated as ever! More than 1,500 Rotarians from across the country gathered in sunny Belfast at the Waterfront Conference Centre, a grand venue with its toes on the […]
We’re working with the Nigerian National Society of Anaesthesiology (NNSA), the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health and the Flatley Foundation to bring safer surgery and anaesthesia to every government hospital in the country. Follow along, with our reports from the front line… DAY SIX Just me! Faye, Cheik and Svetlana left either last night or […]
We’re working with the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA), Life Support Foundation and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) to increase surgical safety for patients and anaesthesia providers in Tanzania. Dr Bronwyn Rae, reports from the front line of the upcoming SATA Second Annual Scientific Conference from 21st to 22nd May. Day One […]
From the instant of publication in 2005, ‘Deaths Associated with Anaesthesia in Togo, West Africa’ was famous. We knew that anaesthesia in a low-resource setting could be dangerous – that without the equipment, support and training safety hallmarks of higher-resource colleagues, patients were at increased risk. But Fatou Ouro-Bang’na and colleagues gave us a number, […]
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide project put training and a pulse oximeter into every government hospital and recovery setting. To celebrate this milestone, and thank the […]
When it comes to making global surgery safer, where in the world do you start? At home. Diaspora communities are some of the most passionate and effective agents for safe surgery and anaesthesia we’ve met, with a connection and commitment to their country that powers long-term change. Take Nelly-Ange Kontchou, a fourth-year student pursuing her […]
