By Tom Neill | Operations Director
I just returned from a trip to Uganda where I was able to visit several project sites and meet with our incredible team members working on the ground. I arrived around midnight Saturday. The following morning I traveled to Mbarara about 5 hours southwest of Kampala. In Mbarara, I visited the Emergency Department at Mbarara University Hospital and met with the four emergency medicine residents to hear about their first year of specialist training. They are a dedicated and talented crew working with limited resources to provide the best emergency care available, while studying and learning the skills necessary to be emergency care physicians. Being the first class of emergency medicione residents in Uganda, they are well aware that they are pioneers in emergency care development in their country. They realize their success will not come without struggle. From my perspective, Uganda is extremely lucky to havce this intelligent and dedicated crew of professionals leading the way as the emergency medicine pioneers.
From Mbarara, I traveled to Masaka where I was able to see the entire Masaka team in action from Program Director to ECP Trainers to Research Team to ECP Diploma students. Across the board, the team is functioning at a very high level. I was lucky enough to sit in on a few lectures and simulation exercises with the ECP Dipoloma students and was very impressed at the high level of engagement and learning that. was occurring. Now well into their second semester, the ECP Diploma students have settled into their new roles and are focused on learning, both in the classroom and clinically in the ED.
Having just returned invigorated by the successes of the teams in Uganda, I wanted to share our next fundraising opportunity that will help us continue to grow and train more lifesaving healthcare providers. Because we believe that there’s strength in numbers and that small donations add up to BIG change, we're participating in Global Giving's Little by Little Matching Campaign!
Starting at 9am ET on Monday April 9th through midnight on Friday, April 13th, Global Giving will match donations up to $50 at 50% while the $50,000 in matching funds remain. That means if you donate $50, GEC will receive $75 to build our emergency care education programs in Uganda.
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