Emergency ECHO: Enhancing Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care

The healthcare systems across Sudan, South Sudan, and Sub-Saharan Africa face immense challenges, particularly in emergency medicine, critical care, and operative procedures. Resource constraints, insufficiently trained professionals, and the impacts of conflict continue to hamper the ability of healthcare providers to deliver life-saving care.

The Emergency ECHO program has been adapted from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) framework for Integrated Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care for Universal Health Coverage and Protection from Health Emergencies. This initiative aims to bridge the gaps in emergency care by providing comprehensive, integrated training to equip healthcare professionals with essential skills. By utilizing both real-time and self-paced learning methods, Emergency ECHO empowers doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to handle emergencies more effectively and save lives.

The Emergency ECHO program aims to train healthcare providers in Sudan, South Sudan, and Sub-Saharan Africa with the skills necessary to manage critical cases, respond to emergencies, and ultimately save lives.

• Doctors
  • Medical officers
  • House officers 
• Nurses working in Emergency Rooms (ER), Intensive Care Units (ICU), Operative Rooms (OR)
• Anesthesia technician 
• Final or semifinal year medical and nursing students
• Senior staff in ER, ICU, OR 

Program duration: November 2, 2024 – January 18, 2025

Learning Formats: The program utilizes a combination of live and self-paced learning methods:

Synchronous Learning:
Participants will engage in virtual weekly sessions via the IECHO platform, where they can participate in interactive discussions and receive real-time feedback. Sessions will be conducted on Saturdays at 5:00 PM Central Africa Time starting on November 2, 2024 with the following schedule:

Asynchronous Learning:
In addition to the live sessions, participants will access a range of resources and learning materials on Moodle, which must be completed during the program’s timeframe.

Participants can choose to attend the program virtually or at one of the designated learning sites:

• Dr. Bushra Ibnauf Center for Learning, Port Sudan, Sudan.
• Dr. Bushra Ibnauf Center for Learning, Juba, South Sudan.

Professor Ihab B. Abdalrahman (Tarawa)
Professor of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Dean of Medicine, South University of Medicine, Science and Technology, Juba, South Sudan
Dean of SAMA Institute of Health

Dr. Ahmed Abusalab
Consultant of Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Soba University Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan

Dr. Hagir Abbasher
Consultant of Medicine and Critical Care
University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Soba University Hospital
Khartoum, Sudan

Dr. Ahmed Al Mustafa Ahmed
Specialist Emergency Medicine, Burjeel Medical City
Assistant professor, Liwa College
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Elwaleed Elhassan
Consultant of Nephrology and Hypertension
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Riyadh, KSA

Dr. Sulaf Abdelaziz
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology
University of Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan

Dr. Ruaa Abdelsalam
Anesthesia Specialist
Soba University Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan

Dr. Ahmed Hamadtalla
Anesthesia and critical care specialist
Kalba hospital
Sharjah, Kalba, UAE

Certificates are awarded to learners by SAMA and Project ECHO upon meeting the following criteria:

• Attendance of at least 75% of the sessions.
• Completion of all feedback forms for the sessions attended.

• For those who wish to attend in person at our centers in Port Sudan or Juba, please [click here].
• For those who prefer to attend virtually, please [click here].