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India
As Dr Rebecca Jacob makes clear in her interview for International Women’s Day, unsafe surgery in India isn’t a case of unwillingness – it’s context that can kill. We’ve worked with hospitals across the country to put pulse oximeters in…
Uganda
Anaesthesia providers in Uganda lack access to almost everything that we take for granted in high-resource setting practice: basic drugs, monitoring equipment, support staff, continuous learning. And every week they treat a nightmare caseload: ruptured uteruses, road traffic accidents, severe…
Malawi
In August 2014, Lifebox trustee Dr Isabeau Walker travelled with long-time Lifebox friend and president of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland (COI) Dr Ellen O’Sullivan to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, in the south of the country. Last…
Ray Towey is –
(c) African Mission In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by…
2014 Annual Review
We’ve had an incredible year, and our 2014 Annual Review celebrates by taking to the skies. Inspired by the countries we’ve visited, the people we’ve met, and the fascinating link between aviation and surgical safety, this is an ‘inflight magazine’…
Lifebox is a winner!
Since you’re reading this online, you’re obviously a tech-savvy sort – so are we! Lifebox has been recognised in the 2014 Nominet Trust 100: a list of the world’s most inspiring ventures that use digital technology as a tool…
Going back to Ghana
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering…
Lifeboxes for Rio – ready, set, go!
Put the 2016 Olympics in your global health calendar – we’re going to Rio! Or at least we’re going to #Lifeboxes4Rio, as our co-founders at Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) launch a…
Putting anaesthesia on the map
This is a map of where to find fish in Lake Malawi. The 3 million year old basin lapping against the ‘The Warm Heart of Africa”s eastern border has a unique biodiversity of cold-blooded residents.
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