By charles Ndyamwijuka | Operations Director
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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