“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as easy as 1,2,3. Good data gathering takes planning, it takes money, and it takes time you really don’t […]
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide project put training and a pulse oximeter into every government hospital and recovery setting. To celebrate this milestone, and thank the […]
It marks this year’s Small Charity Week, which celebrates the essential contributions made by small charities across the U.K. As a small charity with a big impact, we hope this action-packed resource will help you to help us keep making a difference. Whether you’re a keen cyclist, a baker – or if you prefer a […]
Michael is a senior anaesthetist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and St George Hospital, Kogarah, in Sydney. He’s also Chair of the Overseas Aid Committee for ANZCA, serves on the Overseas Development and Education Committee in the ASA, Chair of the Paediatric Committee of the WFSA, and adjunct Professor of Anaesthesiology at the University […]
Dr. Getaw Alamnie is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Smile Train partner facility Yekatit 12 Medical College Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and fellow on the new Clean Cut for Cleft program launched by Smile Train and Lifebox. Dr. Getaw is leading this new program in Ethiopia to make surgery safer for children with […]
Healthcare workers can be placed at risk in the workplace through exposure to viral and bacterial pathogens. The mission of Lifebox – to improve surgical safety – extends to the safety of healthcare workers caring for patients in clinical care areas, as well as performing surgical instrument decontamination and materials reprocessing. A key element of healthcare […]
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 Room, where he works by turns as both surgeon and anaesthesia provider. He’s also one […]
Lifebox impact in Burundi highlighted in new study in the South African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia - with 89% per cent of hospitals having a Lifebox pulse oximeter.
Lifebox was selected as of the Nominet Trust’s 100 organisations using tech for good, and we know our way around social media. But there’s something special about seeing our name in fresh, inky, smudgeable print – particularly when the stories are so right on! In September we took part in a workshop in the Dominican Republic, all […]
A new study outlines operating room efficiency in a teaching hospital in Ethiopia finding high rates of cancellation and delays but that these were not caused by a lack of resources or infrastructure.
