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 […]
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 […]
The Clean Cut program encourages teamwork from all hospital personnel, how do you fit in to this? Ever since the beginning of the program, I have been assisting with data collection, analysis, and the presentation of our results to the team on-site to continue influencing a positive change in workflow to our OR workers. I […]
Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter
A global survey has found severe lack of essential personal protective equipment and infection prevention protocols, putting perioperative providers at risk of COVID-19 infection.
They say that the recession is affecting charitable giving. We say, have you met the readers of the British Medical Journal. Over the last two months, a stationer’s rainbow of envelopes has greeted our mornings and a rush of online donations have cheered our afternoons (sometimes we actually cheered!) Generous readers have raised more than […]
Thanks to our MAKE IT 0® partners, we’re able to send equipment and training far and wide! Bhutan may be a long way from the office, but colleagues at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) are a lot closer – and they’re working with us to support safer surgery and anaesthesia across the country. Check out the most […]
Held on 19 November, members of the global surgery community met to discuss and share experiences on the key contemporary issues of neo-colonialism in global surgery and actionable goals that can be taken to address this. This session was held by an informal coalition of individuals, organizations and institutions in the global surgery community. […]
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 […]
An email pings in from Boston, USA – subject: Oximeter to India? As l read Lifebox chair and co-founder Atul Gawande’s editorial published in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery I am reminded of this moment: our part in a global chain reaction sparked in desperate response to the challenges faced by Dr Shrikant Jaiswal, […]
