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 […]
Student groups who see global surgery in their future, OR teams curious to see how hospitals around the world are introducing the WHO Checklist, armchair travellers ready to rove from Uganda to Mongolia – get inspired by Emory med student Zayan Mahmooth’s reflection below, and click here to get started! “On October 9, 2017, people […]
NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed up to put the safety of the surgical patient – and the support of colleague clinicians – first. We were lucky enough to catch up […]
If you’re looking to join our community and make a difference in patient safety, this page will give you all the tools you need to get started with your own fundraising for Lifebox.
It’s an impressive site, as a referral hospital for more than 2 million people needs to be. But you don’t travel all this way just to lark around with the birds, so let’s take a look at life on the ground.  Originally set up by a Norwegian civil society organisation, the hospital is now […]
Team CLEFT is a new workshop by Smile Train and Lifbox designed for nurses, anesthesia providers and surgeons which supports Cleft teams to learn together.
Adventurers/doctors Laura Irwin and Reza Noori are embarking on a year long unaided cycle journey to help support safer surgery in low resource countries. They’re riding the length of the Andes, the longest mountain range in the world. As far as fundraising challenges go, this one sets the bar high! We’ll be keeping in touch […]
Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year? How many partnerships did we create? What percentage of healthcare workers leave a Lifebox training workshop more […]
To mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November we’re delighted to share an interview with consultant anaesthetist and Lifebox Research Fellow, Dr Nick Boyd, who is part of a team working to enhance the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal probe for diagnosis of pneumonia in children under five. Over the year’s you’ve supported Lifebox’s training workshops, follow-ups […]
There are many ways in which you can help Lifebox put pulse oximeters into operating rooms which don’t have them – in the process saving thousands of lives. You can hold bake sales, tell your friends, family and colleagues about the important work that we do, and take part in triathlons and other sporting events. […]
