Saving Lives With Emergency Care in Rural Uganda

Thanks to your support and generosity Global Emergency Care Collaborative has reached our $90,000 goal for this GlobalGiving project. Over the course of four years, GECC has been working hard to increase access to emergency care in Uganda. While we are extremely grateful for you partnership, our work is not yet finished. But, due to your donations we have been able to accomplish a great deal. I want to share with you some of the highlights that your support helped accomplish:

• Designed and implemented an innovative training program that teaches non-physician clinicians- Emergency Care Practitioners- to assess and initiate treatment for acutely ill and injured patients
• Treated over 30,000 patients at our pilot site in Nakibale, Uganda
• Trained 12 Emergency Care Practitioners to operate as the first mid-level providers in emergency care in all of Uganda
• Developed a unique curriculum consisting of over 80 lectures, 26 medical simulation scenarios, and quarterly procedure labs
• Reduced all cause morbidity and mortality for all presenting patients compared with regional averages
• Reduced mortality for children under five years for children presenting with malaria and trauma
• Expanded the ECP training program to Masaka Regional Refferal Hospital - one of ten public, regional refferal hospital in Uganda
• Created an ECP training center at Masaka Regional Refferal Hospital to train hundreds of ECPs to be dispersed throughout Uganda

Because we reached our goal for this project, it will be deactivated. But, that does not mean GECC's work in Uganda  is finished. To the contrary, we are redoubling our efforts to improve access to emergency care in low resource settings. This year, our focus will be the expansion of the ECP program at Masaka Regional Reffereal Hospital and the growth of that program. To fund our efforts in 2015, we have another project on Global Giving that has recently been approved where we encourage you to continue your financial support of GECC. We urge you learn more about this program and GECC’s ongoing efforts at our website, on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.

Thank you for your continued support. Your generosity helps us train Uganda’s next cadre of life-saving emergency care workers. 

With gratitude,

Tom Neill