Ensuring timely, accessible and quality lifesaving emergency care in Kenya
RECENT PROJECTS
Kenya Emergency Medical Care Policy
The Kenya Emergency Medical Care (EMC) Policy 2020-2030 is the first-ever policy in Kenya that seeks to establish a working Emergency Medical Care (EMC) System as a key component of the healthcare system in the country.
Giving Oxygen to COVID-19 Patients
Part of our COVID-19 initiatives has been to improve the delivery of oxygen to patients in the emergency department in the county healthcare facilities with the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Project 47: Emergency Care Centres
The primary objective of Project 47 is to establish standardised public emergency care centres across the 47 counties in Kenya.
UPCOMING & RECENT EVENTS
TECC Training, 23 - 27 November 2020
EMK Foundation in collaboration with the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) conducted a 5-day simulation-based emergency care training (TECC) for the healthcare workers working in the emergency departments at the Mbagathi and Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospitals in Nairobi.
#AfCEM20, 9 - 12 November 2020
This year, EMK Foundation hosted the 5th African Conference on Emergency Medicine (#AfCEM20). #AfCEM20 featured more than 500 emergency care professionals from across Africa and other regions of the world and hours of intensive education.
Emergency Care Talks, 01 October 2020
There are 6 life-threatening causes of chest pain. In this open mic session sponsored by bioMérieux, we tackled the approach to a patient presenting with chest pain and how to diagnose a heart attack or a blood clot in the lungs (pulmonary embolism) both of which can be rapidly fatal.
Emergency Medicine Kenya (EMK) Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation
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Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation
Park Place Business Centre, Park Place Building, 2nd Floor,
2nd Parklands Avenue off Limuru Road, Nairobi. Kenya
Post: P.O. Box 1023, City Square 00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
Phone: +254 20 2100054 / +254 710 633 855 (mobile)