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An interview with Dr. Suleiman on the enormous challenges in Liberia in providing safe surgery and anesthesia.

How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia across a number of low-income countries. This was a unique opportunity to learn about the gap in safe […]

What global surgery experience did you have before starting your Lifebox Fellowship? At the end of my medical school training I wanted to see what surgery was like elsewhere – my experience had only been in the United States. I spent time at a couple hospitals in Nepal, which was incredibly eye-opening. I took call […]

Our work in Central America began in 2011, with large-scale oximetry distributions and training workshops across the region. In 2018, with the support of the IZUMI Foundation, and in coordination with the anesthesia societies of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, Lifebox launched two new programs, delivered twenty workshops, and trained over 1,000 healthcare providers […]

And as Project Manager for the South Asia region, with a particular focus on India, she’ll bring her professional and personal experience to bear on some critical safer anaesthesia and surgery programmes. Here’s the plan! Welcome to Lifebox! Could you explain a bit about your background, and what drew you to global surgery? My interest […]

Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter

We talk about the pulse oximetry gap so often that it’s easy to forget what a shocking statistic it really is.  Anaesthesia without pulse oximetry monitoring is incredibly dangerous, and lives depend upon closing the gap.  So we were delighted when the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA), the largest anaesthesia organization in Europe, with a […]

Lifebox 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022

Lifebox works to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia in low and middle-income countries. Our partners are now on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Lifebox is rapidly refocusing our relevant tools and training materials to help support them.

Decades earlier, Professor Soyannwo’s son was born by emergency C-section, without oxygen monitoring. His brain was deprived of oxygen, and helives now with the long-term effects of prolonged hypoxia. Pulse oximetry monitoring could have changed his life. And in sharing her son’s story, Professor Olaitan made the case for pulse oximetry, changing the Checklist, setting […]