India – The Next Step
From western India, to the east. Next on the itinerary was the north-eastern state of Bihar. As the traffic of the state’s capital – Patna – gave way to dirt roads and palm-studded countryside, the rugged beauty of Bihar was…
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India – One Step at a Time
It seemed like fate that I landed in India exactly ten years to the day that I first arrived as a fresh-faced backpacker. One decade later, and hopefully a little wiser, I was back as part of my remit at…
Meet Dr Rediet Shimeles
Throughout her career she’s worked tirelessly to provide safer anaesthesia care for patients in her community, and to support colleagues at Black Lion Hospital through delivering essential training. And she’s just getting started… Why did you choose to become an…
Oximeters keep beeping in Madagascar
We’ve been privileged to support incredible teams across the country since 2015, when we joined the world’s largest floating NGO hospital, Mercy Ships on a visit inland to deliver…
A report from Manchester MedX 2017
In March, I had the opportunity to help run a workshop for Lifebox at the student run MedX Conference in Manchester. The theme of the conference was the ‘Future of Healthcare’, a topic which inspires not only medics. With over…
From med student to lead author
But how do you find yourself lead author on the latest research to prove it so? Lifebox spoke with Dr Vanessa Albert, junior doctor (and medical student at the time of research) about her experiences bridging implementation and academia.
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…
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…
Meet the man behind Lifeboxes for Rio
(c) Joseph Galvin ASSOC RP Inspired by his time as a Gamesmaker at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, he came into office with an ambitious idea: raise enough money to send 600 pulse oximeters to hospitals in…
Uganda, safer anaesthesia – student experience
My name is Emma Spencer and I’m a final year medical student at the University of Bristol in the UK. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend a month last year at Kitovu Hospital in…
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