Lifebox and CAMNOWAA: making surgery safer in Cameroon Lifebox Foundation is proud to be working in collaboration with the Cameroon North West Association of Anaesthetists (CAMNOWAA) to increase surgical safety for patients and anaesthesia providers in Cameroon. Lifebox donated 60 pulse oximeters, and training will be delivered in collaboration with CAMNOWAA to anaesthesia providers across […]
Lifebox® and ESA in Uzbekistan: safer anaesthesia training workshop Lifebox® Foundation is proud to be working in partnership with the European Society of Anaesthesia (ESA) and the Uzbekistan Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (USAIC) to increase surgical safety for patients and anaesthesia providers in Uzbekistan. Thanks to ESA’s generous donation, 100 pulse oximeters will […]
Lifebox donated 75 pulse oximeters, and will be delivering training in pulse oximetry, and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in partnership with SATA to anaesthesia providers across the country at the SATA Second Annual Scientific Conference from 21st to 22nd May. Surgery is a vital component of healthcare and thousands of operations take place each […]
Back in March, Côte d’Ivoire was in the news for devastating reasons. Violence dominated the headlines, by chance the same week that Lifebox was in town for a very different story: safer surgery. This is a story that begins by acknowledging the challenges of resources and workforce in delivering safe surgery, and the knock on effect for […]
Road traffic accidents. Congenital heart defects. Maternal mortality. Pneumonia. This is the permafrost of public health, killing tens of millions of people worldwide each year. But there’s a singular piece of medical equipment increasingly recognised as critical in the resistance. It enhances treatments and reduces deaths from each of these conditions, and it’s called a pulse oximeter. […]
The risk is high: an invisible threat to patients who’ve given everything they’ve got to get to a hospital, reversing the life-saving work of surgical teams striving to save them. Our Clean Cut programme, piloting in Ethiopia, aims to develop simple and scalable inventions that use training, monitoring and evaluation to make surgery safer. We […]
Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following nearly fifteen years with MSF, including a field deployment as part of MSF’s Ebola response team in Liberia, […]
Last month we… Honored the importance of global surgery stories as we witnessed the Checklist Effect receive its fourth award at the Global Cinema Film Festival in Boston Celebrated International Women’s Day by sharing perspectives of our inspiring female safer surgery and anaesthesia champions around the world #IWDSurgery #BeBoldForChange Partnered with the AAGBI, the WFSA […]
Last month we… Listened to our founder and chair Atul Gawande’s TED Talk in Vancouver (his last one was viewed more than 1.5 million times!) Joined obstetricians and gynaecologists at the Royal College of O&G World Congress in Cape Town, consulting with this critical community for global surgery, and sharing their perspectives on camera Proudly […]
He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, Safe Surgery, Safe Patient” it’s hard to resist his enthusiasm and can-do attitude when it comes to all things surgery related. Here we chat to Surajit about his quest to improve the safety of anaesthesia in his […]
