When caring for critically ill patients, health workers often need to ‘call-for-help’ to get assistance from colleagues in the hospital. Systems are required to facilitate calling-for-help and enable the timely provision of care for critically ill patients. Evidence around calling-for-help systems is mostly from high income countries and the state of calling-for-help in hospitals in Tanzania and Kenya has not

This article discusses the need for essential care. Much of the attention is directed towards expensive, high-tech equipment while neglecting low-cost essential care. This paper recommends the policy focus should be on “basic, effective actions with potential population impact”.

The focus of this study was to specify the content of Essential Emergency Critical Care (EECC) for critically ill patients with COVID-19 due to the surge of critical illness in the current pandemic.

Critical illness is common, and the majority of critically ill patients are cared for outside intensive care units in emergency departments and general hospital wards. Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) has been defined as the care that all critically ill patients should receive in all wards and units in all hospitals in the world.