The Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) Champions Workshop (11–13 March 2026) and EECC Course ToT (14th March 2026) in Dar es Salaam brought together clinicians, researchers, and health system leaders from across Africa and beyond, united by a shared mission: ensuring every critically ill patient receives essential, timely care regardless of setting. During the 3 days champions workshop 26

The THUMB trial, a multi-centre cluster trial focused on evaluating the implementation of a perioperative care complex intervention designed to improve outcomes from haemorrhage during and after caesarean sections in African hospitals, was successfully launched at Amana and Mwananyamala Regional Referral Hospitals on the 29th and 22nd August respectively. This was preceded by a 2-week baseline data collection and co

EECCiT Dissemination meetings were done in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar towards the end of January. The meeting brought together key stakeholders from the Ministry of Health, Prime Minister’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG), regional and district health teams, implementation partners, and healthcare workers from the Primary Healthcare (PHC) facilities to review progress, reveal and discuss the EECCiT implementation

The first APPRISE THUMB trial co design meeting took place on the 06th of August 2025 at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) bringing together the APPRISE Project leadership alongside teams from Mwananyamala and Amana Regional Referral Hospitals. Each hospital was represented by a lead obstetrician, an anaesthetist, and nurses from both the theatre and postnatal wards,