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Lifebox 2022 Milestones

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

All of us deserve safe practices

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

Smile Train-Lifebox To Distribute 11,000 Pulse Oximeters to 20 Countries, Making 14 Million Surgeries Safer

NEW YORK – July 11, 2022 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, today launches a new venture with Lifebox, the global nonprofit organization that makes surgery safer in low-resource settings, to distribute 11,000 pulse oximeters to 20 countries. This distribution, a key milestone of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative, will […]

Project countries’ health infrastructure

Whilst there have been improvements in health services and systems in the region, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health services. In Guatemala, it is estimated that basic health and nutrition services meet only 54% of the needs of the rural population (World Bank, Universal Healthcare on the rise in Latin America. 2013). Similarly, […]

Unsafe surgery is our issue

Sometimes a picture – Sometimes a picture says it all. And you don’t need 1000 words to make a point. But sometimes there’s too much to be said. The problem is complicated, urgent, human, unfair, and the statistics are so vast that you can’t see past them. Sometimes the story is so much more than […]

Just so splendid

Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t be enough to keep patients safely monitored in the operating rooms across the region. That was back in October.  Coming on for […]

COVID Resources

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Lifebox Workshops

Lifebox workshops are rooted in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and help improve surgical and anesthesia safety for perioperative providers around the world

International Women’s Day 2025: Accelerating action for equity in safer surgery and anesthesia

At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential care. This International Women’s Day, we proudly celebrate their invaluable contributions, acknowledging the persistent challenges they […]