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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.

#SaferSurgeryZimbabwe

What’s she talking about…? We’ve worked in Zimbabwe since 2012, supporting health workers with essential equipment and training. So we’re excited to be back in Harare this week, delivering life-saving safe anaesthesia and WHO Surgical Safety Checklist training – and…

Lifebox in Guatemala

The tropical country of Guatemala lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and is Central America’s most populated country. It has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in Latin America as well as the continent’s youngest…

ASiT stands for safer surgery

ASiT is a longtime friend of Lifebox, committed to safer surgery on a global scale – with recent skills courses in Rwanda and some very exciting news about their upcoming annual congress. We’re delighted to confirm that…

Lifebox at SMAR

We caught up with the President of SMAR, Professor Ahmed El Adib and here’s what we learned. Tell us more about SMAR We were established in 1984 and we currently have around 400 members. Morocco has more than 600…

Safe Surgery in the Steppes

“It was a picture of a caesarean section, carried out by torchlight in a Mongolian ger using a Lifebox pulse oximeter, that got me, a London-based freelance journalist, a commission to spend a week in that country in October last…

Longform Lifebox

Stories about global surgery and environment-appropriate technology aren’t as rare as they used to be. Thankfully, journalists – from online tech platforms like Techonomy to media institutions like the Wall Street Journal –…

Our #SaferSurgeryBangladesh story

Last November in Khulna, the third-largest city in Bangladesh, we set out to train a maximum of 24 doctors. Thanks to incredible work from our faculty, three from Dhaka and two from the U.K., we ended up delivering essential education…

Lifebox News – January edition

Last month we… Introduced our new global CEO, Kris Torgeson. Kris is a former Secreatry General of MSF International, and we’re excited to start work with her this month. See her in action…

Lifebox news – January edition

We understand you’re busy – so are we! If you haven’t had time to check in with Lifebox lately, here’s where you can get caught up.  Welcome to the January #LifeboxNews: highlights from a busy month and…

RCoA: The Checklist Effect Screening

This powerful feature-length documentary about surgical safety on a global scale, was produced with the support of our partners around the world, it’s seen festivals and screens from Boston to Mombasa and we’re thrilled to welcome it back to London…

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