It’s been over a month since our second ever Lifebox Day which was held on Saturday 18 April. The day brought together medical professionals and trainees in the field of global surgery. Kohila Vani Sigamoney, Senior Clinical Research Fellow/ Trauma Registrar at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary writes about her experience. On the 18th of April 2015 […]
Can you join us? Earlier this year we were privileged to receive a three-year grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to help spearhead our work into India, where the safe surgery crisis is acute. We’ll be delivering Lifebox training and equipment in a number of states, but we’re no fans of ‘parachute development’. Our goal […]
We’d love to hear from anyone interested in our vacancy for a part-time (1 day a week) Finance Manager. Feel free to call Kristine Stave on 0203 286 0402 for an informal chat about the job.
Lifebox and Mercy Ships share a commitment to safer surgery for all, and we’ve worked closely together over the years through distribution of lifesaving equipment, training to hospitals and long-term follow up to make it more than wishful thinking. From our very first trip to Guinea in 2013 to delivering WHO Surgical Safety Checklist training in Congo and Madagascar, we’ve certainly learnt […]
It’s late on a Monday and l’ve been scrolling through my Twitter feed for the past hour. I don’t normally spend this much time on one Twitter session but it’s almost as if I’m reading a book that I just can’t put down! The reason for this: it’s the night after International Women’s Day. March […]
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]
"The most devastation came from the uncertainty that was associated with being on the frontline." Dr. Igaga talks about protecting the anesthesia workforce in Uganda.
Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the first Lifebox training and distribution project in Mongolia. Dr Simon Hendel, an Australian anaesthetist who wrote about Lifebox last year for the Global Health […]
Dr Traudl Elsholz would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and overworked. She’s one of only three medical anaesthetists in the entire country of Eritrea. That’s in addition to the 37 diploma nurses who have spent between 6 months and 2 years training in anaesthesia to meet the needs of 5 million people. “As you can […]
A couple of weeks ago, an unassuming envelope with a US stamp and a California zip code landed on the Lifebox doorstep. Inside was a $250 cheque for the donation of a pulse oximeter to an OR on our waiting list. And another. And another. And another. This quiet contribution from Northern California turned […]
