Project Report
| Mar 19, 2026
Strengthening Pre-hospital Care through Training of Emergency Medical Technician Workforce in Uganda
By charles Ndyamwijuka | Operations Director
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GEC Pre-hospital Training at Masaka Hospital
Uganda has a high incidence of road traffic accidents and high mortality rates, yet lacks a mature prehospital emergency care system. The prognosis of both medical and trauma emergencies can be significantly improved if proper care is initiated early enough, which can be on the scene or during transportation to the hospital. Uganda like many other low- and middle-income countries, still significantly lack adequate emergency medical services coverage, a problem compounded by a profound deficit of first responder training programs. In hopes of addressing this critical gap in the Ugandan’s healthcare workforce, Global Emergency Care (GEC) continues to create and implement innovative, Uganda-specific prehospital care provider training programs, providing education scholarship programs Emergency Care Technicians (EMTs), advocacy for emergency care and capacity building short trainings in emergency care management for healthcare workers. In the past few months, GEC has provided 57 tuition scholarship to Emergency Medical Technicians at three Health training institutes in Uganda
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Nov 25, 2025
Strengthening Uganda's national Emergency Medical Care delivery
By Charles Ndyamwijuka | Operation Director
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GEC Uganda Pre-hospital Training
The Ugandan government has committed to adding over 1,000 new ambulances by 2026. To meet this expansion, Global Emergency Care (GEC) is working to train and deploy the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) workforce that will staff these vehicles and strengthen emergency care nationwide, GEC has since supported the first cohort of 57 students — drawn from leading health training institutions including the Lubaga Health Training Institute , Nsambya Training health Institute and Gulu school of health sciences with study scholarships for the 2025–2026 academic year. Our goal is to double this number in the following year, ensuring that more communities gain access to lifesaving pre-hospital care.
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Jul 31, 2025
Teaching The Next Generation Emergency Care Heroes on Ambulance
By Charles Ndyamwijuka | Operation Manager
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Glorious -GEC Trainer
Global Emergency Care (GEC), together with other development partners, was given the mandate from the Ministry of Health (MOH) to develop the first-ever National Diploma in Medical Emergency Care. This is against the backdrop of GEC’s successful support of the Diploma at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), together with other partners successfully setting up what was to be a self-sustaining Diploma program.
Uganda’s population of over 50 million people, the current gap requires over 500 trained and registered Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) to work on the ambulance. The Ugandan government aims to add over 100 ambulance vehicles by 2026, which will increase the number of EMTs required by at least another 200. Developing the curriculum has been one of the central pieces of GEC's work in Uganda. With GEC, and Ministry of Health efforts and engagements, in the past months, the National diploma curriculum was fully developed, approved and lunched by Ministry of Education, this was a great millstone in the development of emergency medical services in Uganda, GEC working together with Uganda ministry of Health is now working on the program to provide scholarship opportunities to the first cohort of students who will enroll in some of the selected health training institutions 2025-2026 academic year.
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