Emergency care on the move: the foundation of skilled frontline prehospital emergency medical care in the Rohingya refugee camps
Emergency care on the move: the foundation of skilled frontline prehospital emergency medical care in the Rohingya refugee camps
21 December 2020
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Emergency care on the move, ambulance teams are largely recognized for rushing into life-threatening emergencies, saving lives in people’s homes, by the side of the road or on route to the hospital; but also for driving the dead, in silence and respectfully, only its flashing lights on.
In some parts of the world, however, quality and timely emergency medical care is neither accessible nor available to all. In light of this, the World Health Organization (WHO) is advocating to strengthening emergency care systems that serve as the first point of contact with critically ill or injured patients which include first aid, prehospital care, facility-based emergency unit care, and early critical and operative care as needed.