Table 1.
Attendees at the 4th meeting of the WHO Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC)
| Countries in attendance | Country reports |
|
|---|---|---|
| Country | Activities | |
| Ghana | AFRO | |
| Nigeria | The Gambia | WHO tools incorporated into medical school curriculum |
| Solomon Islands | ||
| Philippines | Work toward incorporating EESC into national health plan | |
| Rwanda | ||
| Malawi | ||
| United Kingdom | ||
| United States | Gap analysis for EESC performed | |
| Canada | ||
| Ireland | ||
| Mozambique | ||
| Liberia | ||
| Switzerland | ||
| Mongolia | ||
| Ethiopia | ||
| Senegal | ||
| Zambia | ||
| Pakistan | ||
| Somalia | ||
| The Gambia | ||
| Zambia | Best-practice protocols implemented at primary referral facilities | |
| EESC elements incorporated into medical school curriculum | ||
| Incorporated EESC tools training into the new 2-year surgical training curriculum for general doctors | ||
| Ghana | Situational analysis (33 hospitals) | |
| EESC integrated into first referral hospitals | ||
| Mozambique | IMEESC used to train surgical technicians | |
| Tanzania | WHO/EESC collaborating center | |
| EESC in national health plan | ||
| Established surgical task force | ||
| Situational analysis completed | ||
| Training workshops with MoH at district hospitals | ||
| Kenya | IMEESC and SCDH distributed to district hospitals | |
| Situational analysis completed | ||
| Malawi | EESC has been incorporated into training for medical and surgical officers | |
| IMEESC toolkit available at all district hospitals | ||
| Situational analysis in progress | ||
| Masters training program being developed | ||
| Sierra Leone | Additional training in EESC planned | |
| Liberia | EESC integrated into training manuals for task shifting | |
| MoH has expressed support for EESC training programs | ||
| Sao Tome and Principe | Situational analysis in progress | |
| Nigeria | Situational analysis to be completed | |
| Uganda | EESC materials inserted into medical school curriculum | |
| Situational analysis in progress at district facilities | ||
| Mali | WHO tools, IMEESC, SCDH translated into French | |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Development of French version of EESC training materials | |
| EMRO | ||
| Afghanistan | Situational analysis performed and published | |
| WHO training materials being translated into Dari and Pashto | ||
| Training workshops held using WHO teaching materials | ||
| Pakistan | Situational analysis performed in 18 district hospitals | |
| EESC workshops planned | ||
| Pilot project involving King Edward Medical University and Foundation for Health Care Improvement to “uplift EESC” at six district hospitals | ||
| Somalia | Situational analysis in progress | |
| Development of primary surgical care package based on WHO teaching materials | ||
| Egypt | WHO–MoH workshop on EESC completed | |
| Oman | WHO–MoH facilitators meeting held | |
| Iran | Teaching materials being translated into Farsi | |
| EURO | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | Best practice protocols and equipment list being utilized | |
| Tajikistan | WHO–MoH workshop held using IMEESC toolkit | |
| Part of IMEESC toolkit translated into Russian | ||
| SCDH being translated into Russian | ||
| SEAR | ||
| Nepal | EESC introductory workshop held | |
| India | EESC workshops in Uttarakhand and Meghalaya | |
| Situational analysis in progress | ||
| Democratic Republic of North Korea | Teaching materials translated into Korean | |
| EESC training the trainers workshop held | ||
| Bangladesh | Situational analysis in progress | |
| Bhutan | ||
| Myanmar | Situational analysis completed, publication in process | |
| Maldives | EESC training workshop held with WHO–MoH | |
| Sri Lanka | Situational analysis completed and published | |
| Indonesia | National EESC training the trainers workshop held | |
| WPRO | ||
| Mongolia | EESC being scaled up; training completed for 187 doctors, 657 surgeons/anesthesiologists, 29 midwives, and 50 nurses | |
| Situational analysis completed and published | ||
| Number of surgical procedures has increased | ||
| Mortality and complications have been reduced following implementation of EESC training | ||
| Papua New Guinea | EESC workshop held | |
| EESC integrated into national health standards | ||
| IMEESC toolkit used to upgrade training manual for rural health workers | ||
| Solomon Islands | Plan to integrate EESC | |
| Vietnam | SCDH translated into Vietnamese | |
| China | EESC workshop held with WHO–MoH | |
| Translation of WHO teaching materials in progress | ||
| Philippines | National EESC “training the trainers” workshop held | |
| WHO teaching materials disseminated to all district hospitals | ||
| PAHO | ||
| Ecuador | Training tools translated into Spanish | |
| Guyana | EESC teaching materials utilized for basic surgical training | |
PAHO Pan-American Health Organization, WHO World Health Organization, EESC, Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, IMEESC Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, SCDH Surgical Care at the District Hospital, MoH Ministry of Health