Nsambya Hospital passes out 25 emergency care officers

By Ben Musanje

26^th July 2023

A team of emergency medical officers and tutors from Lubaga and Nsambya Hospitals along with the police have conducted a demonstration as part of the exercise to assess their competence in saving lives in case of an accident.

The exercise was a requirement for the completion of the 10 days emergency care training held at St. Francis Nsambya Nursing Training School in response to the government request for private health institutions to train teams in emergency care response to save life in case of road accidents within the area of their operation.

At least 25 emergency care officers have been trained in the ongoing government program through the ministry of Health to train 500 emergency care health officers to deal with casualties of road accidents that have become rampant in the country.

The exercise carried out around midday today sow trainees and the Police staging an emergency rescue exercise after a fatal road accident involving bodaboda riders near the main entrance of St. Peters Parish Nsambya, it caused fear and panic among the motorists, pedestrians and the surrounding community causing traffic jam on either sides of Bishop Hanlon road Nsambya.

It was until after an hour that the Motorists and pedestrians knew that it was a demonstration exercise to save life.

According to Nsambya Hospital Executive Director Dr. Andrew Ssekitoleko the training sponsored by Maltaser International from Germany is timely when the country is blacklisted as one the deadliest country due to road accidents.

Uganda registered a 16.9 percent increase in road accidents in 2022, a new police report revealed, with a total of 20,394 cases of road accidents registered compared to 17,443 cases registered the year 2021.

Out of every 100 crashes, 22 people died while 61 percent of all accidents were as a result of reckless driving, the police say.