Our Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) program drives the implementation of 40 fundamental life-saving treatments and actions in hospitals

Joined January 2025
💙 We’re off to a strong start! From Dayana to Thousands has already raised $5,000 toward our $25,000 goal — bringing emergency care to 11,000 patients in Tanzania. Every gift helps save lives like Dayana’s → givebutter.com/eecc #EECC #SaveLives #FromDayanaToThousands
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🚀 It’s launch day! We’re raising $25,000 to bring lifesaving emergency & critical care to 11,000 patients in Tanzania. When 7-month-old Dayana arrived at hospital struggling to breathe, simple EECC care saved her life. Join us → givebutter.com/eecc #EECC #GlobalHealth
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Baby Briana was born silent and not breathing. Nurses at Vwawa Hospital acted fast—clearing her airway, giving oxygen and fluids. Minutes later, she cried for the first time. 💛 #EECC in action: simple tools, trained staff, lives saved. 🔗 buff.ly/yu0CaJ4 @UNICEFTanzania
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13-year-old Salimu nearly drowned. Low oxygen. Aspiration pneumonia. Critical illness. But trained health workers acted fast - oxygen, antibiotics, monitoring - and saved his life. This is EECC in action, supported by @UNICEFTanzania. 🔗 eeccglobal.org/blog/eecc-sal… #EECC #Tanzania
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💡 Simple care, big impact: EECC. Most critically ill patients aren’t in ICUs—& too many miss out on life-saving basics. Join the UNICEF/Child Health Taskforce webinar 📅 11 Sept | 9am EST | 1pm UTC | 4pm EAT 🔗 Register: buff.ly/ZP0wCUN #EECC #GlobalHealth #SavingLives
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👶 Baby Dayana was 7 months old, feverish, and struggling to breathe. Thanks to a team trained in EECC, she received oxygen, antibiotics & close monitoring. Within days, she was smiling again. 💛 Simple tools. Skilled staff. Lives saved. 👉 buff.ly/LG4ZfJ1 #EECC
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EECC featured in @H_S_Global * 1 in 8 of adult inpatients in hospitals are critically ill. * 69% of the critically ill are being treated in general wards not ICUs * 21% of critically ill patients die in hospital within seven days * 56% do not receive the low-cost EECC
🚨 Member blog highlight: The Urgent Need for Emergency and Critical Care in Africa 🌍🏥 Timely, life-saving care is essential — yet often out of reach. Explore why ECC must be prioritised across the continent. 📝 Read more: healthsystemsglobal.org/news… #GlobalHealth #EmergencyCare #HealthEquity #HSR2025 @EECCGlobal
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Read about the African Critical Illness Outcomes Study on @H_S_Global
🚨 Member blog highlight: The Urgent Need for Emergency and Critical Care in Africa 🌍🏥 Timely, life-saving care is essential — yet often out of reach. Explore why ECC must be prioritised across the continent. 📝 Read more: healthsystemsglobal.org/news… #GlobalHealth #EmergencyCare #HealthEquity #HSR2025 @EECCGlobal
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Four-month-old Deborah was struggling to breathe. Thanks to a nurse trained in Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC), she received oxygen and rapid treatment. Four days later, she was home with her family. Simple, timely care saves lives. 👉 buff.ly/NMP3rsR #EECC
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64-year-old Nickson arrived gasping for air, his oxygen dangerously low. Nurses trained in Essential Emergency & Critical Care (EECC) acted: 💨 Oxygen 🩺 Vital signs checked 🪑 Positioned upright Minutes later, he could breathe. Days later, he went home. buff.ly/41Ot1gO
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🚑 Car crash. Heavy bleeding. Struggling to breathe. 31-year-old Elias was critically ill. Thanks to a team trained in #EECC, he got: 🩺 Oxygen 💧 IV fluids 🩹 Bleeding control 3 days later, he walked out of hospital. Simple care. Life saved. 📖 buff.ly/xLbBiYl
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🩺 What if we could save 1 million lives a year with simple, low-cost care? New global analysis shows EECC—vital signs checks, oxygen, fluids—could cut deaths in critically ill adults by 970,000 yearly. Let’s make it standard. 👉 buff.ly/XddFWRe #EECC #GlobalHealth
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💡 What is EECC? Essential Emergency and Critical Care is low-cost, life-saving care for the critically ill — in any hospital. 🩺 Check vital signs 💨 Give oxygen 💧 Start IV fluids 🧍Act fast These basics save lives. 👉 Learn more: buff.ly/YOtPeTV #EECC #GlobalHealth
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🫁 Claude was critically ill when he arrived at a rural hospital in Tanzania. He got oxygen. Vital signs were monitored. No delay, no high-tech tools — just simple care that works. 💡 This is EECC. It saved Claude’s life. 👉 buff.ly/4DoXUPt #EECC #GlobalHealth
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Every health system should deliver simple, life-saving care for the critically ill—no matter the diagnosis, ward, or resources. 🌍 Join the movement for Essential Emergency & Critical Care (EECC). 🧡 Sign up: buff.ly/iKVawKp #EECC #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity
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🩺 “Over half of critically ill patients in African hospitals aren’t getting basic life-saving care.” At #WHA78, Karima Khalid from @EECCGlobal shared why Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) must come first. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/xHThtdT #EECC #GlobalHealth
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🚨 Millions of lives can be saved with simple, low-cost care. At #SATA2025, EECC Global’s Karima Khalid called for every health system to prioritise Essential Emergency & Critical Care. Read the highlights 👉 buff.ly/AiflZbP #EECC #GlobalHealth
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👶 Baby Lilian was fighting to breathe just 1 hour after birth. A nurse trained in EECC gave her oxygen and saved her life. No machines. No ICU. Just simple, timely care. 🧡 Help us train more nurses & save more lives: 🔗 buff.ly/r7aXMNt #GlobalHealth #EmergencyCare
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Simple. Effective. Life-saving. 🌍 EECC delivers vital care using low-cost tools & training. 🩺 Prof. Tim Baker’s lecture 🎓 Accredited EECC course w/ Stanford 📥 Free teaching materials Make sure your hospital is ready. 🔗 buff.ly/ZdAcO1y #EECC #GlobalHealth
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New Research Highlights Urgent Need for Better Oxygen Care in Sub-Saharan Africa! A key challenge uncovered is the widespread lack of consistent documentation and patient monitoring. Learn more → buff.ly/6X5TxUz
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