Prof. Lee A. Wallis – President IFEM at the Emergency Care Symposium 2017 (#ECSKenya2017)

Prof. Lee A. Wallis, President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, presents the keynote address at the Emergency Care Symposium at Safari Park

“We don’t expect that every patient who needs emergency care will be seen by Emergency physician specialists…. they are not the solution to the emergency care problem…. the system is completely dependent on community-based first aid responders, clinics and low-level hospitals like district hospitals, nurses, clinical officers mid-level workers and generalist doctors who go from seeing emergencies with no training to dealing with emergencies properly trained. That is the transition we need to make”

“Our job is to save lives. It is therefore important to provide quality emergency care to all. Emergency care systems are the bedrock of good healthcare. For instance, if there was better emergency care at the scenes of traffic accidents, we could potentially save five hundred thousand lives in Africa annually.”

Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation

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