Save Lives with Emergency Care in Uganda

GEC started new initiative which builds on previous work training emergency providers in Uganda. While GEC has been training hospital-based emergency providers for more than a decade, there remained a gap in pre-hospital care and barriers to patients reaching the hospital. This program seen GEC trained Emergency care Practitioners serve on the ambulance service in Kampala, at National Trauma centre Naguru providing full time coverage for the ambulances with a focus on responding to the most critical cases. Given ECP's extensive experience, they will give input into how the model functions to provide effective emergency care and allow the ECPs to gain pre-hospital experience to enable GEC to refine the ECP training curriculum for Uganda’s future EMTs.

“As an ECP, I love being on ambulance providing care to critically ill patients ,  it is both challenging and personally rewarding. You directly and quickly see the benefits and positive results of your diagnosis and treatment of patients with emergent conditions before reaching referral health facility. This aspect is what makes emergency medicine so interesting and stimulating.” As said by Deus ECP

GEC has been teaching the use of point-of-care ultrasound to ECPs since 2009. In the low-resource emergency departments of Uganda, bedside ultrasound is the most important diagnostic tool available to emergency practitioners. ECPs heavily utilize this critical technology to diagnose traumatic injuries, ectopic pregnancies, pericardial effusions, pneumonia, and a whole host of other emergent conditions. Ultrasound helps ECPs be effective frontline emergency providers and save lives. The technology, itself, is critical for emergency care because it allows ECPs to make emergent Diagnoses, preform safe procedures, and train the next generation of emergency practitioners in Uganda. It is one of their favorite scans to do.

GEC in collaboration with Masaka Regional Referral Hospital launched a skiill sessions a training program for intern Doctors at the farcility  in Bedside-ultrasound scan. In the passed two weeks so far, 24 intern doctors have been trainned out of 40 interns to be trained. This highlights what an incredible resource Ultrasound is for Emergency Practitioners. It is amazing how much they have learned from their training and how well they apply it to patient care to save lives.