Save Lives with Emergency Care in Uganda

There are global disparities in the provision of emergency medical care, with populations from rural communities and underresourced countries expecting poorer access to these services. This potentially compounds the existing higher burden of morbidity within these populations. In these settings, emergency care training skills has the potential to improve outcomes while mitigating challenges and barriers both during pre-hospital and in-hospital patient care.

Global Emergency Care (GEC) continues to carry out Capacity Building Trainings in emergency care to boost the management of patient care in rural remote communities’ health facilities of Uganda.

As demonstrated by GEC Emergency Care trainee Boniface who wrote…

My name is Boniface, one day on my way home from work, a car accident occurred, leaving one of the passengers, James, unconscious and with a severe head injury but because l had recently completed emergency care training with Global Emergency care (GEC) at Masaka Regional Referral hospital-Uganda, l stopped to help. l was able to assess the situation and provide immediate care, including stabilising his neck and monitoring his vital signs until emergency responders arrived. Thanks to the quick actions and knowledge l had acquired during Global Emergency Care trainings, James’s injury was not as severe as it could have been without my intervention and he was able to make a full recovery on reaching the accident and Emergency Unit.