Safe Surgery Times - Friends of Lifebox leaflet | Página 2

IS SURGERY REALLY SO DANGEROUS? Yes. Lack of hospital equipment and training means anaesthesia mortality is 100 to 1000 times higher than in the U.K, and a life-saving operation quickly becomes a life-threatening one. DO YOU AGREE THAT... No mother or child should die from an unsafe C-section? Yes No 1 in 130 chance of dying from anesthesia Yes No Healthcare workers cannot deliver safe care without equipment and training? Yes We tend to think of surgery as elective or cosmetic – but the most common surgical procedures in low-resource setting countries, such as c-section, trauma care, or hernia repair will save life and livelihood when nothing else can. The problem is that in low-resource setting countries, those operations are desperately unsafe. No is too high a risk?   Mothers refuse to allow their children into surgery – they’ve seen too many tragedies. If you said yes, then you’re no friend of unsafe surgery – you’re a friend of Lifebox! WHAT DOES LIFEBOX DO ABOUT IT? Now there’s a way to make it official. Become a friend of Lifebox, and join us in the fight to make surgery safer for millions of people in low-resource setting countries. We provide essential equipment and training to ensure that every operating theatre worldwide has access to essential monitoring and safety checks, and healthcare workers who understand how to use them. www.lifebox.org • 21 Portland Place, London W1B 1PY, UK • + 44 (0) 203 286 0402 • Email: [email protected] Registered as a charity in England and Wales (1143018) • Registered as a company limited by 2 guarantee (7612518) 3 We’re starting with pulse oximeters and the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist – this dual intervention is proven to reduce the risk of surgical complications, infection and hypoxic episodes by nearly 50%. 6