Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
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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.
The World We Want 2015
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their…
Security warning – communications from Lifebox
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Lifebox joins FRSB
We are delighted to announce that Lifebox is now a member of the UK’s Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB). Joining the 1,400 other fundraising organizations signed up to the FRSB, means that we will have…
Thank you
They say that the recession is affecting charitable giving. We say, have you met the readers of the British Medical Journal. Over the last two months, a stationer’s rainbow of envelopes has greeted our mornings and a…
British Medical Journal – campaign coverage, 2012-2013
In 2012 Lifebox was selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity for the second year in a row. The campaign raised more than £27,000, and will enable us to support more than 160 additional operating theatres…
The Family Way
Tired of fighting a balance between work and home life? Talk to Félicité Mukeshimana. She’s an anaesthesia technician at a district hospital in Ruhango, a province in the south of Rwanda. Félicité and Fiona in their finery…
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…
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…
Togo
When you hear people talking about the devastating rates of anaesthesia mortality in low-resource settings – as high as 1 in 133 – they’re talking about Fataou’s paper. Published in Tropical Doctor in 2005, it showed just how dangerous surgery…
2012 annual review
It’s hard to believe 2012 is almost over! For Lifebox this has been a year of enormous excitement and fast developments; the year we distributed our 4000th oximeter and supported 2000 colleagues to receive training in safer surgery and anaesthesia.
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