“We’re here today to talk about surgery,” said Lord Bernard Ribeiro, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health, as he welcomed the audience to the Houses of Parliament yesterday. “Not as a luxury, but as something that changes lives.” Past the policemen, across Westminster Hall and over the commemorative plaques […]
The MV Africa Mercy is the largest charitable hospital ship in the world, providing free surgical services (primarily facial reconstruction, benign tumor excision, cataract removal and child orthopaedics) to the African countries Mercy Ships visits on a rotating basis. A repurposed Danish passenger ferry, she took to the seas in 2007 after a very useful bridge built […]
We’re working with the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA), Life Support Foundation and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) to increase surgical safety for patients and anaesthesia providers in Tanzania. Dr Bronwyn Rae, reports from the front line of the upcoming SATA Second Annual Scientific Conference from 21st to 22nd May. Day One […]
We spoke to designer Brenda Roberts Costa, who runs digital creative agency Synchroma, about her experience bringing the Lifebox oximeter ‘how to’ to life. The video needed to translate technical concepts into simple visuals. How did you approach this complicated brief? Coming into this project with no previous knowledge of the Lifebox oximeter contributed significantly […]
Lifebox and The University of Global Health Equity announce new partnership for safer anesthesia and surgical care.
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 life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]
Usually it’s parents who brag about their offspring, not the other way around. But at Lifebox, we’ve always been proud of our roots. Our co-founder, the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) is an extraordinary organisation: the umbrella body of anaesthesia societies worldwide, it’s a unique collaboration for better standards, education and advocacy across […]
My name is Belinda Karimi and I am a clinical nurse at the Agakhan Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, and a trainer for the Team CLEFT workshop – a professional working group of multidisciplinary health professionals, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. I didn’t always want to be a nurse. I had early aspirations in journalism, but […]
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 […]
What motivated you to apply for the Lifebox Fellowship? Working in a low-resource setting has been a long-standing ambition of mine, but I wanted to ensure I had the technical skills, maturity and support to deal with the complex challenges I would undoubtedly face. The Lifebox fellowship was appealing to me because it is a […]
