🚨 Advance Your Life-Saving Skills! 🩺 Applications are now open for the Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) Course. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your emergency response skills or enhance the quality of critical care you provide, this course offers practical, evidence-based training from experienced professionals. 📅 Course Dates: 3–5 August 2026 🗓️ Application Deadline: 31 July 2026 Don’t miss
The Implementing EECC in Tanzania programme has received the inaugural The Lancet–Elsevier Foundation Evidence to Impact Award, recognising outstanding implementation science that translates research into measurable improvements in patient care. The award recognises the ongoing work by the multidisciplinary team behind the Implementing EECC in Tanzania programme, which has worked with the Government of Tanzania to implement Essential Emergency and
14th MUHAS Scientific Conference 📝 The POETIC Tanzania team participated in the 14th MUHAS Scientific Conference, where we showcased research and innovations aimed at strengthening the care of critically ill patients in Tanzania. Under the conference theme, “Innovating for Resilient and Sustainable Universal Health Coverage in the Era of Shifting Global Health Financing,” our team contributed evidence that supports stronger,
Imechapishwa katika Gazeti la Mwananchi✍️ Tanzania imepunguza vifo vya wagonjwa waliolazwa hospitalini kwa asilimia 31 kupitia mpango wa Tiba Okovu na Huduma Msingi kwa Wagonjwa Mahututi (EECC), unaotekelezwa katika vituo 79 vya afya katika mikoa mitano ya Tanzania Bara na Zanzibar. Vifo vilipungua kutoka 116 hadi 81 kwa kila wagonjwa 10,000, utoaji wa huduma muhimu uliongezeka kutoka asilimia 27 hadi
EECC course in the National E-learning platforms: This week, a workshop was held in Morogoro, to adapt 3 UNICEF developed courses one of which is the Essential Emergency and Critical Care clinical course. This process is key to making the EECC course user friendly for user in the National E learning platform. A fundamental milestone towards increased accessibility for all
Dr. Tim Baker, Associate Professor, Critical Care Physician, and Principal Investigator of the POETIC research program at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, presented at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026, held April 27-29 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi. The summit theme, “Reimagining Africa’s Health Systems: Innovation, Integration and Interdependence,” provided a