Written by Naomi Richardson Back in February, GECCo had the pleasure of being invited to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Careers Fair at the University of Manchester. This event brought together local and international humanitarian and human rights organisations to speak with students about life in these sectors and how they could get involved. We set up our … Read More
Sudan’s 2023/2024 conflict: the impact on emergency care
Written by Dr Zenira Elbasheer, ST4 Emergency Medicine, North West deanery Edited by Anisa Jafar & Ahmed E O Ali Since 15th April 2023, when intense fighting suddenly broke out in the capital Khartoum and later spread to other states, Sudan has become one of the most urgent healthcare emergencies. The country is facing the largest internal displacement crisis with 8.1 million people … Read More
Global health map – connecting UK emergency care practitioners
Everyone loves a happy ending, right? Well here’s one for you – perhaps really more of a beginning anyway! Remember we updated you last year about project in collaboration with RCEM to map global health engagement amongst emergency care practitioners in the UK which made its way into the European Journal of Emergency Medicine? Well, a mere 2 and a half years since the 2021 … Read More
Providing emergency care in Gaza in the winter of 2023
Written by Dr Chris Hook, Emergency Physician, Bristol Royal Infirmary Edited by Silas Webb & Charlotte Nichols Trigger warning – this post contains descriptions of injuries and fatalities which some readers may find especially difficult to read Dr Chris Hook is a Bristol-based emergency and pre-hospital medicine doctor. He recently returned from working in the Gaza strip as a Médecins … Read More
Gaza: the emergency care voice rescued from a sea of politics
Written & edited by Anisa Jafar, James Chan, Joanna Quinn, Erin Hamill & Angharad Spencer-Matewere Emergency care practitioners are known for creating order from chaos, being pragmatic amidst difficult circumstances, advocating for patients and being bold when others cannot. We are proud to treat without judgment, cut through the noise and aren’t afraid to call out our colleagues when we … Read More
The Bristol-Nanyuki partnership: “those who sim together, win together”
Written by Dr Olivia Duffy, Global EM Fellow, Bristol Royal Infirmary Edited by Anisa Jafar & Frankie Cackett Photo credits: Dr Olivia Duffy and Mr Mwangi Ishmael, shared with participant consent In summer 2023 my role as global health fellow in emergency medicine at the Bristol Royal Infirmary saw me spending 6 weeks in Nanyuki Hospital (northwest of Mount Kenya) under the … Read More
GECCo in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine
You might remember back in 2021 when a team connected via GECCo launched a project in collaboration with RCEM to map global health engagement amongst emergency care practitioners in the UK. Since then, lots of work has been going on: a qualitative study is nearing completion and has been presented around the world and the map itself (which has been batting away … Read More
ICEM 2023
The International Federation of Emergency Medicine has held it’s annual conference, ICEM, in Amsterdam this year and what a conference it has been for GECCo-spotting. Not one but two of our upcoming Edinburgh event workshop leads, Taj Hassan and Colin Macalindin were to be found – Colin presenting his work evaluating the Bristol-Nanyuki global health fellowship. Leeds-based Taj of course has been supporting GECCo for some time, and was … Read More
Climate change and global health
Written by Dr Angharad Spencer-Matewere, EM consultant at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Edited by Anisa Jafar Climate change might not be the first topic that comes to mind when thinking of global health. However, looking no further than the 2022 floods in Pakistan, the devastating 2023 cyclone that hit Malawi and ongoing drought in East Africa demonstrates just three of thousands of examples of the disproportionate … Read More
Adult Emergency Care Project – Sierra Leone
Written by Dr Zosia Bredow Edited by Anisa Jafar & Gabrielle Prager Dr Zosia Bredow Sierra Leone has some of the worst health outcomes in the world. It is 181 out of 189 countries on the UN’s Human Development Index, and life expectancy at birth in 2021 was 60.1 years (global: 71.4 years).1 Many people in Sierra Leone die prematurely from preventable … Read More