Session virtual link: Digital Session, Meeting ID: 996 8055 0734
Session title | Emergency care: An essential component of Universal Health Care | ||
Coordinator | Kalanzi Joseph | ||
Hosts | Ministry of Health-Uganda WHO Makerere University College of Health Sciences Seed Global Health |
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Session abstract | Emergency care is an integrated platform to deliver time-sensitive health care services for acute illness and injury across the life course. The emergency care system that delivers these services extends from care at the scene through transport and emergency unit care, and it ensures access to early operative and critical care when needed. Emergency care responds to a range of acute conditions in children and adults, including injuries, infections, acute exacerbations of noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and complications of pregnancy.
It is the first point of contact with the health system for many people, providing timely recognition of time-sensitive conditions, resuscitation and referral for severely ill patients, and the delivery of definitive care for many others. More than half of deaths in low- and middle-income countries are from conditions that could be treated by emergency care. However, because it is neither diseasenor population-specific, emergency care is frequently a blind spot, neglected in international policy and funding initiatives. All Member States, regardless of available resources, can take steps towards strengthening their emergency care systems. In May 2019, the 72nd World Health Assembly unanimously passed resolution 72.16 Emergency care systems for universal health coverage: ensuring timely care for the acutely ill and injured, which calls for global efforts to strengthen the provision of emergency care as part of universal health coverage and urges all Member States to undertake specific actions to do so. Strategies to implement these efforts will be discussed by the panel. |
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Session Format | Panel Discussion 11 | Workshop | Plenary |
Chairs | Chair: Dr. Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Uganda Co-Chair: Dr. Teri Reynolds, WHO |
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Speakers | Title | Contact | Status |
Speaker 1 (Policy/Government) | Dr. John Baptiste Waniaye, Commissioner EMS-MOH |
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Speaker 2 (Academia) | Prof Lee Wallis
African Federation of Emergency Medicine |
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Speaker 3 (Civil Society) | Dr. Bonaventure Ahaisibwe Director
Seed Global Health Uganda |
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Speaker 4 (Private sector) | Tore Laerdal | ||
Speaker 5 (Optional) | Dr. Annet Alenyo
Emergency Medicine Uganda |
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Event Timeslots (1)
ROOM 6 SHEEMA
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WS 11