The late Dr Vincent James Hughes was a Canadian anesthesiologist who dedicated his professional life to improving anaesthesia care worldwide. He spent ten years working in the West Indies; ten as a physician-anesthesiologist in Zimbabwe, and ten back home at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where he continued to support outreach programmes in low-resource settings. […]
“Suddenly, to no one’s surprise, a large black object, namely Remy’s suitcase, flew off the roof, down the windshield and landed in front of us.” Between the needs assessment and the measurement; alongside the logistics of funding and coordinating equipment distribution and training for a hundred people traveling in from a hundred different directions – behind […]
Earlier this year our Honourary Clinical Advisor, Dr Ed Fitzgerald travelled to Rwanda to deliver essential surgical training and follow-up on Checklist and pulse oximeter use at Kibagabaga hospital. In this blog first published on our co-founder the WFSA’s website he reflects on his trip. One of the remarkable aspects of returning to Rwanda regularly over the […]
Hello everyone, This is my first blog as a student representative for Lifebox! How did I get involved with Lifebox – and why? My interest in global surgery and anaesthesia and equality in healthcare stemmed from my experiences in charity work particularly in Cambodia. My time there was spent teaching health and English to children […]
As part of our response to COVID-19, Lifebox is supporting innovations to improve the safety of healthcare workers and patients during the pandemic.
“I don’t care how you get here,” croons Brenda Russell, “just get here if you can.” The same could be sung for the AANA’s Eight Annual Wellness Fun 5K Walk/Run. Everyone welcome! The goal of the early morning trek through the Las Vegas heat wasn’t the fastest time, but the best time – the health […]
What is Corbis’s mission? Corbis Sussex is a student-faculty multidisciplinary group comprising individuals with global health interests based in Brighton. Our objective is to foster the growth of a cohesive, multi-disciplinary, global health community at the University of Sussex, BSMS and Brighton area, engaging with partners in the wider health and development sector and to […]
In the developing countries we are facing a massive surgical disease burden – and women are affected severely. From ever increasing trauma to obstetrics and gynecological issues and female cancers like breast cancer. Access to safe and timely surgery are imperative to keep women healthy and productive – as mothers, as breadwinners, as employees, as […]
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 […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.
