Why did you choose to apply for and work with Lifebox for your residency fellowship? For my residency research time, I really wanted to work with an academic global surgery group that would give me the opportunity to live and work on the ground. Lifebox’s approach is very much about building local partnerships, and […]
Smile Train and Lifebox joins forces to launch the Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative to elevate the standard of care for pediatric surgical patients around the globe.
This is a map of where to find fish in Lake Malawi. The 3 million year old basin lapping against the ‘The Warm Heart of Africa”s eastern border has a unique biodiversity of cold-blooded residents. This is a map of the voter breakdown during Malawi’s fourth multi-party election, in 1993. And this is a map showing the start […]
Usually it’s parents who brag about their offspring, not the other way around. But at Lifebox, we’ve always been proud of our roots. Our co-founder, the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) is an extraordinary organisation: the umbrella body of anaesthesia societies worldwide, it’s a unique collaboration for better standards, education and advocacy across […]
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their characters, their ideas, their – well, you don’t know anything about what they really want, do you? You just […]
Professor Miliard Derbew talks to Lifebox on the challenges of providing safe surgical pediatric care and safe surgery in East Africa
I started my very engaging and interesting trip to India from Hyderabad, a city in Telangana, where Lifebox donated pulse oximeters for the very first SAFE Paediatric course to take place in India. From Hyderabad I quickly moved onto Delhi, familiar territory for me, and took every opportunity to interact with the communities that are […]
Smile Train-Lifebox tackle major gap in anesthesia safety in low-resource setting operating rooms with a high quality, affordable capnograph
Adventurers/doctors Laura Irwin and Reza Noori are embarking on a year long unaided cycle journey to help support safer surgery in low resource countries. They’re riding the length of the Andes, the longest mountain range in the world. As far as fundraising challenges go, this one sets the bar high! We’ll be keeping in touch […]
A landmark study by GlobalSurg, published in the Lancet, has highlighted the need to focus on post-operative care -with surgical patients in low/lower middle-income countries six times more likely to die within 30 days of a major complication than high-income countries.
