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The Ambulance Project

last updated Jul 3, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Pre-Hospital Care World
Implementation Partner(s): 
East Africa Ambulance Project (EAAP); Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing; Chesongoch Health Dispensary
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
East Africa Ambulance Project (EAAP)

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
<10
Summary: 

The project offers emergency medical care in a remote region of western Kenya by providing the ambulance to transport patients from their homes to the dispensary.

Program goals/rationale: 

Ambulance Project aims to create a situation in rural Kenya where, in the event of a critical emergency, people are given a fighting chance with the benefit of modern emergency procedures.

Key program components: 

East Africa Ambulance Project has purchased a specially made customized ambulance for the Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing in Kenya.

The second part of the Ambulance Project involves training emergency medical staff. This includes a First Responder course similar to what fire fighters and police officers in the United States receive. For interested staff, training modelled on an Emergency Medical Technician course is offered. The skills associated with the trainings include: oxygen therapy, childbirth, triage and multiple trauma, airway management, moving patients, transportation of patients, emergency medical technician skills, basic first responder skills, CPR, defibrillation, mechanical ventilation, splinting and suctioning.

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