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.
Lifebox News – September edition
Last month we… Returned to the international anaesthesia stage, with a consultation, education sessions, and our founder and chair Atul Gawande giving the keynote address at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Hong Kong…
Global surgery at the UN
At Lifebox we’re proud to be part of the history of safer surgery and anaesthesia – and to be passionate advocates for its future. So we were delighted to join some of the movement’s strongest allies in New York this…
Welcome Lifebox-Medsin reps!
We’re so delighted that our call to action was answered and we will be hosting our first event with our first ever group of Lifebox-Medsin reps on Saturday 24 September. We know that students are the future of global surgery…
ASA raffle to support Lifebox
And they’re using it to launch a very glamorous fundraising effort for Lifebox… To mark the 75th Diamond Jubilee of the ASA National Scientific Congress, the society is raffling a diamond pendant with all proceeds going to Lifebox. The draw will take…
Headlines in Dominican Republic
And global surgery isn’t just an operation happening ‘over there’ – it’s the appropriate infrastructure, partnerships, political will and shared commitment to making this essential component of universal health coverage truly universal. Lifebox is thrilled to be part of one such partnership…
They call him the “Checklist Advocate”
But he’s at home on a mountain bike, powering up one of Namibia’s seven giant hills. He’s at home in the kitchen with his family, while his daughter asks questions about tomato-chopping techniques. And he’s at home in the Operating…
Lifebox in Central America
Our work in Central America began in 2011, with large-scale oximetry distributions and training workshops across the region. In 2018, with the support of the IZUMI Foundation, and in coordination with the anesthesia societies of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and…
#safersurgeryNamibia
In June, Lifebox had a chance meeting in Boston with the Namibia based Dr Leonard Kabongo. We learnt pretty quickly that when he’s involved, stuff gets done…and quickly. Just six weeks later, I was on a plane heading to the…
World Humanitarian Day – #safersurgerymeans
This year’s theme, ‘One Humanity’ highlights how we are now more connected than ever before, and this goes for global surgery too. We’ve worked with colleagues around the world to make surgical and anaesthetic safety a global reality because we know…
Lifebox is hiring: Global CEO
Lifebox is seeking a chief executive officer for Lifebox Global, which comprises Lifebox Foundation in the UK and Lifebox Foundation, Inc. in the US. Click here for more information. If you know someone with the knowledge, the…
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