GECC’s Emergency Care Practitioners send a huge thank-you to the Bancroft School in Worcester, Massachusetts for donating computers to support GECC’s educational work. Here Jovita, JB, Irene, and the Program Director, Caleb, review a slideshow on shortness of breath in…
Written by: Dr. Stacey Chamberlain, GECC Vice-President and Co-founder Ebola has been all over the news. While the epidemic rages on in West Africa, those of us elsewhere in the world have been talking about how to prepare ourselves to…
Written by: Kisoke Tobias – Research Coordinator, Uganda Sitting in the emergency department (ED) at Karoli Lwanga Hospital, it’s common to hear attendants and patients say “Nindi mu emergency”- literally meaning “am in the ED”. Over the years that the Nyakibale…
The Junior Emergency Care Practitioners recently participated in a procedure workshop during which they had the opportunity to practice and demonstrate their new knowledge of orthopedic traumas. This hands-on education session focused on the management of fracture reductions and advanced…
I am just returning from a trip to East Africa that included a brief stay at our pilot site at Nyakibale Hospital. Having spent the past eight years working to develop sustainable emergency programs in Africa, I sometimes feel things…
GECC is very proud of Dr. Heather Hammerstedt’s recent publication in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Her paper discusses how GECC’s work at Karoli Lwanga Hospital in rural Uganda established the first emergency care specialist training program in Uganda and why…
We have made incredbile progress over the past year and are pleased to share with you our 2013 Annual Report. In the report, you’ll find information about our newest graduating class, expansion into Kenya, a report from the field, GECC research…
Global Emergency Care Collaborative has lost a dear friend and colleague this past week. Emergency Care Practitioner, Mugabe Didas, tragically and unexpectedly passed away last Tuesday evening at his home in Ruhinda, Uganda. Didas was one of four new Junior…
Emergency Care Practitioner, Richard Twinomujuni, recently accompanied two critical trauma patients as they were transported to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. ECPs often monitor referred patients throughout their transport after stabilizing them in the Emergency Department at Karoli Lwanga Hospital. These…
Emergency Care Provider (ECP), Birungi Alfunsi, and visiting physicians, Jordan Chanler-Berat and John Allen Houston, diagnosed a young boy with a perforated ileum using bedside ultrasound scan in the Emergency Department early this week. When the patient arrived, he was…