Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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Global Health Organizations Unite at the All Africa Anaesthesia Congress to Address Capnography Gap
A coalition of global health organizations have united to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation that is putting countless lives at risk.
Capnography action letter
Global health organizations partner to urge health care systems globally, to include a capnograph as an essential anesthesia monitor for safer surgery in a capnography action letter.
Introducing ourselves
What a privilege to get to spend more time with them! We’ve just returned from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)’s World Congress in Cape Town. From a ‘listen and learn’ consultation session hosted…
Why instruments?
You just came back from a second scoping trip to Cambodia. What was the most memorable experience of the visit for you? Probably realising the frustrations of those working in government hospitals in Cambodia mirrored those in Ethiopia. The Ministry…
Lifebox News – February Edition
Last month we… Longform Lifeboxed in a beautiful feature about our work in Mongolia and India, as part of Mosaic Science’s Great Ideas series. It features smart innovations that changed and saved lives…
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…
Phoebe Khagame – #BeBoldForChange
When you were growing up what did you want to be? Interestingly, up to after my O-levels, I wanted to be a doctor, specifically a gynaecologist. Well, I guess I got the easier way into medicine by working with medics,…
Dr Ninadini Shrestha – #BeBoldForChange
When you were growing up what did you want to be? There were many things I wanted to become while I was growing up and it kept on changing with what inspired or influenced me. I guess when I was…
Next steps #SaferSurgeryEthiopia
Lifebox has a long history in Ethiopia, having worked in the country since 2011 – supporting anaesthesia providers with essential monitoring equipment and the skills to deliver safer care, so we’re thrilled to continue…
Dr Rediet Shimeles – #BeBoldForChange
When you were growing up what did you want to be? When I was growing up I wanted to be doctor. Just like any child, I wanted to be doctor but didn’t know the reason, as time went by, my…
Dr Sandra de Izquierdo – #BeBoldForChange
When you were growing up what did you want to be? I wanted to be a medical doctor. What motivated you to become an anaesthetist? When I was a medical student in 5th grade I started to go to the…
#BeBoldForChange
We’re inspired by this year’s IWD theme ‘Be Bold For Change,’ as it aligns with our mission to make safer surgery a global reality, and we’re excited to shine a spotlight on the women who are boldly…
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