Last month we… Welcomed Mansi Tara to the Lifebox team – she’ll be leading our work in South Asia, with a particular focus on India. Interviewed Joon Yoo, our ServiceCorps fellow and second-newest Lifebox team member. Participated in the Royal Society of Medicine’s Global Surgery Summer School: talks and workshops on surgery, obstetrics and anaesthesia […]
The Lifebox Foundation, a global charity working to improve the safety of surgical care in low-resource settings, today welcomed the spotlight on the issue of environment-inappropriate medical equipment and restated its commitment to appropriate, effective technology. As a report released by the Technologies for Global Health Commission last week shows, much of the medical equipment […]
Lifebox welcomes industry support to the ESA Lifebox Campaign: Masimo and Teleflex make a generous contribution and a clear commitment to safer anaesthesia for all Safe anaesthesia is fundamental to safe surgery – but a global gap in access to pulse oximetry puts safe anaesthesia and surgery out of reach for millions worldwide. The European […]
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the MĂ©decins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically. Intelligent data can do that  – draw insight and outrage from dense statistics, and make you want to stand 10 feet tall […]
Back in March, Côte d’Ivoire was in the news for devastating reasons. Violence dominated the headlines, by chance the same week that Lifebox was in town for a very different story: safer surgery. This is a story that begins by acknowledging the challenges of resources and workforce in delivering safe surgery, and the knock on effect for […]
If you’re keen to learn about global health and have 2-3 days available per week in the coming months, please consider applying for this exciting fixed-term post. PURPOSE OF ROLE To support the various administrative needs of our operations, ranging from support to seasonal giving campaigns and events, to travel bookings and the organizing of […]
Lifebox, the international non-profit dedicated to improving the safety of surgery and anesthesia around the world and SPECT, the Canadian-based non-profit established to improve instrument decontamination and sterilization processes in resource-constrained countries, are piloting the training course in Ethiopia and Central America. Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. […]
The Togolese Republic stretches narrowly north 600 km into West Africa, with Burkina Faso at its head and the Bight of Benin swirling at its feet in the capital city of LomĂ©. But it’s never a day at the beach for the staff at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) in LomĂ© city centre. The sprawling CHU […]
This isn’t quite as morbid as it sounds, but it’s certainly depressing. Harry is talking about equipment graveyards – warehouses, cupboards, row after row of medical devices that are theoretically useful but practically useless in the context of the environment they’ve been sent to. “There’s no maintenance, so things break down,” Harry explains, of the […]
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 […]
