Emergency medicine in Ghana Rockefeller Otengand colleagues describe an initiative in Ghana which is giving victims of trauma injury a better chance of survival

摘要

The epidemic of trauma and resultant injury is continuing to exert its unequalled force on the African continent. The volume of acutely ill and injured is an ever increasing issue at healthcare facilities both large and small. Injury results in 5.8 million deaths worldwide every year, 32% more than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.1 Injury also disproportionately affects low-and middle-income countries, where three of the five leading causes of death include injury or trauma. The Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative is a partnership between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ghana Ministry of Health, and the University of Michigan, whose aim is to improve the provision of emergency medical care in Ghana through innovative, sustainable, physician, nursing, and medical student training programmes. The project is funded by the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the National Institutes of Health through the Fogarty International Center with support from the University of Michigan.