Global Emergency Care Collaborative is excited to announce our new partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). Last month, GECC was awarded a two-year grant to save children’s lives by training non-physician clinicians to provide acute, emergency care services at…
One brisk “ring” and then silence. I jolt from a deep, and too short, sleep into the darkness of the Nyakibale guest house in rural Uganda. Confused at first, I listen to the drops of rain on the metal roof…
Written by Caleb Dresser, GECC Program Director It’s been ten months since the Junior Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) started their training. They’ve sat through hundreds of hours of lectures, taken four tests and countless quizzes, and worked a full-time schedule…
John Bosco, one of the original ECPs from Nyakibale Hospital, has started his own blog about emergency care in Uganda, entilted: Emergency Care: Growing the Dream in Uganda. Strong work, JB. GECC is proud of your leadership and initiative. Keep up the…
Precious was sick; she was too weak to hold her head up, too tired to cry as her father carried her into the Emergency Department. Her two and a half year-old body lay motionless on the stretcher, her skin unnaturally…
Global Emergency Care Collaborative would like to extend a warm and hearty welcome to our new Uganda Program Director – Caleb Dresser. Caleb has already been hard at work at Nyakibale for over a month now and we are lucky…
Written by: Caleb Dresser, Uganda Program Director In addition to their clinical role in the Emergency Department, GECC’s Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) are dedicated educators. This week, two of our Qualified ECPs, Birungi Alfunsi and John Bosco, put their teaching…
Written by: Amy Walsh, MD, GECC Volunteer Physician One of the great privileges and challenges of providing emergency care is the need to be prepared to provide life-saving and disability preventing procedures at a moment’s notice. This can be especially…
Written by Kevin Fischer, GECC Research Associate The power goes out and the Emergency Department freezes. No one moves. JB, who is in the middle of suturing a scalp laceration, has to wait patiently for the generator to kick in…
Written by: Kevin Fisher, GECC Research Assistant Global Emergency Care Collaborative is an organization that thrives on teaching, learning, and most of all, working together to mobilize limited resources into the best medical care possible. The Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs)…