Change we can believe in
Did you know that in 2006 the Rwandan government banned plastic bags in the capital city of Kigali? (Spot the rookie at the airport, sheepishly jettisoning contraband.) Today the grass, unpocked with litter, is…
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Riddle me this:
What do you call an operation that saves two lives at once? A caesarean section. No need to be witty when you’re one of the greatest surgical priorities for healthcare in low-resource settings. An emergency c-section is the most common…
Serious questions and serious answers – #BMJLifebox week two
The best thing about introductions are the questions you get back in return – after all, the surgical safety crisis is going to improve through dialogue, not monologue! – and when they have a question, the readership of the British Medical Journal…
Hot off the press
If you’ve seen our excitement on Facebook or watched us struggle to contain our characters on Twitter, you’ll know that we’ve got some big news to share. Our colleagues in Papua New…
A Long Term Relationship
It started with this photo: October 2011: Dr Jerry Cohen, ASA president elect and University of Florida associate professor, presents Lifebox chairman Atul Gawande with a GIANT CHEQUE. Actually that’s not true. It started with…
I’ll take you there
This is the road leading up to the Outpatient Department at Bungoma District Hospital, in Western Kenya, not far from the border with Uganda: And this is the queue of patients trying to…
Honestly, people in love.
(c) This Sweet Love Photography We might just find it annoying, if people in love weren’t so beautifully generous in their joy! Three happy couples, six friends of Lifebox, have taken a day that is supposed to…
Target 80
Well, in the 18 months since we got this global pulse oximetry gap in our sights and set out to Make It 0, we’ve knocked more than 3000 off the target! Thanks to the generosity…
The Long and Winding Road (to surgical safety)
The road from Gondar to Lalibela – beautiful but long.(c) Hailebet If you can’t get to hospital, you can’t get an emergency caesarian section, or life-saving surgery after a road traffic accident. If…
Making It 0 in the Empire State of the South!
Back in May, we got a tantalizing email from Dr Faye Evans, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine, about the upcoming Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists (GSA) meeting.
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