Save Lives with Emergency Care in Uganda

It’s hard to believe it’s almost April - 2019 is just flying by! Since spring is in the air, I thought it would be a great time to send you an update about GEC's programs and how your donations have been put to work.

In May, we will celebrate the graduation of the first Diploma class - 8 new ECPs who will work at five different hospitals across Uganda. At three of those hospitals, the ECP will be the first trained emergency care provider at that hospital site. This is very exciting because it means that thousands more Ugandans will now have access to emergency care delivered by a highly trained Emergency Care Practitioner.

This spring and summer GEC will be recruiting for the 3rd class of ECP Diploma students to begin training at Masaka in the fall semester. The new students will join the class of six 2^nd year students. GEC continues to work with Mbarara University to facilitate the growth and delivery of the ECP Diploma program.

Last year, GEC sent 8 ECPs to be trained in the WHO’s 5-day Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course in Kampala. These ECPs all received the BEC training, as well as the training to become BEC trainers. In January, four of those ECPs – Cleophus, Richard, Baniga, and Benifer – put that training to use and held a BEC training at Nyakibale for 10 additional ECPs. After completion, all 18 GEC ECPs are now trained and are able to train additional Ugandan healthcare workers in WHO’s Basic Emergency Care course. This is one step in the larger mission of training the emergency care workforce and expanding access to high-quality, emergency care across Uganda.

In February, GEC’s research teams from each site met in Masaka and held the first-ever, two-day research summit. During the summit, GEC researchers learned how to analyze data, how to develop a research question, how to develop and give a data-based presentation, and, most importantly, the teams got to know each other better and fostered a solid sense of camaraderie.

Although we are only 3 months into 2019, GEC has had some amazing things happening this year, and none of it would be possible without the support of generous donors like you. Thank you for your continued belief in our work educating individuals, building systems, and saving lives.

Warm regards,

Tom Neill

Executive Director

P.S. If you know any physicians who would like to volunteer their time working with ECPs in Uganda, please contact us at volunteer@globalemergencycare.org

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