Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation

05/12/2025

When there’s no single toll-free number to call in a medical emergency, every second is lost finding help.

In Kenya, there isn’t one universal emergency medical care access number that connects you to ambulances, trained responders, and hospitals. So in a crisis, people call whomever they can — friends, family, or strangers — while precious time slips away.

At EMKF, we’re working with national and county governments to build a nationally coordinated emergency healthcare system, where a single toll-free number connects every Kenyan to the help they need, when they need it.

Because no one should die or watch their loved ones die searching for a number to call.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

EMKF met with the CECM for Health Services, Embu County and Members of the CHMT to discuss how to collaborate to improve emergency healthcare service delivery

04/12/2025

Strengthening public ambulance services in Migori County 🚑✨

The recent conclusion of a 10-day Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) training program for Migori County, in partnership with the County Department of Health, marks a meaningful milestone in the county’s efforts to enhance emergency preparedness and strengthen coordination of public ambulance services.

Learn More: https://bit.ly/4irZs2R

04/12/2025

🎄 Webinar Alert!

Monday, 8th December
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EAT
Topic: Game of Life: Christmas Edition

The festive season is here — a time of celebration, travel, and family gatherings. Yet it is also the period when emergencies surge. Road crashes, choking incidents, burns, cardiac arrests, asthma attacks, alcohol-related emergencies, and holiday injuries all increase dramatically, placing extraordinary pressure on emergency healthcare providers across the country.

This Christmas, EMKF, in collaboration with Daktari Online , presents a bigger, bolder, and more competitive edition of the Game of Life — a fast-paced quiz-show experience designed to strengthen your readiness for the high-risk emergencies that define the festive season.

🏆 More Rounds. More Challenges. More Prizes.

Compete, learn, and sharpen your clinical decision-making as you tackle real-world festive emergency scenarios backed by the latest evidence and international best practices.

💻 Don’t Miss Out
Join us for this special festive emergency quiz show — stay prepared, stay informed, and save more lives this December.

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/4hFxDC4

30/11/2025

County government healthcare leadership from more than 30 counties gathered in Nairobi in November for the 2025 EMKF County Leadership Emergency Care Conference to review progress and chart the future of emergency healthcare services in Kenya.

Counties shared achievements, identified critical gaps, and committed to strengthening prehospital care through community first response, establishing public ambulance dispatch systems, setting up public emergency departments, and improving emergency medical care data reporting to support continuous system improvements.

EMKF reaffirmed its partnership with national and county governments to drive evidence-based, equitable emergency healthcare systems across Kenya that save lives.

Learn More: https://bit.ly/487yoSZ

29/11/2025

Strengthening public Emergency Departments is essential to saving lives.

Across Kenya, too many patients arrive at hospitals only to find that the lifesaving care they need is unavailable. At EMKF, we are working with county governments to ensure that every public Emergency Department is properly designed, staffed, and equipped, so that no one dies from a treatable emergency.

Every equipped and functional public Emergency Department brings Kenya one step closer to ensuring that lifesaving care is always within reach.

06/11/2025

When Well Established Public Emergency Departments Don’t Exist, We Build Them.

We are excited to support the Kwale County Government in the renovation of the Emergency Department at the Msambweni Teaching and County Referral Hospital.

The upgraded Emergency Department will expand capacity and be fully equipped to ensure that patients in critical condition receive timely, life-saving care.

The project also includes training emergency healthcare workers, ensuring that lifesaving skills and knowledge are readily available where they are needed most.

At EMKF, we’re partnering with county governments, such as Kwale, to ensure that when someone reaches the hospital in an emergency, their care is managed in a well-functioning Emergency Department — equipped, staffed, and ready to save lives.

Because no one should die after reaching the very place meant to save them.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

06/11/2025

We are excited to support the Kwale County Government in the renovation of the Accident and Emergency Facility at the Msambweni Teaching and County Referral Hospital.

The upgraded Emergency Department will expand capacity and be fully equipped to ensure that patients in critical condition receive timely, life-saving care.

The project also includes training emergency healthcare workers, ensuring that lifesaving skills and knowledge are readily available where they are needed most.

At EMKF, we’re partnering with county governments, such as Kwale, to ensure that when someone reaches the hospital in an emergency, their care is managed in a well-functioning Emergency Department — equipped, staffed, and ready to save lives.

Because no one should die after reaching the very place meant to save them.

Learn more at https://www.emergencymedicinekenya.org/stories/

31/10/2025

In an emergency, trying to get to the hospital on time is a terrifyingly lonely journey.

You hope. You pray. You hold on — watching the road blur through tears, praying the hospital isn’t too far and that help will be waiting when you arrive.

This is the reality for thousands of families across Kenya every day.
But it doesn’t have to be.

At the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF), we’re working with governments to build a coordinated emergency healthcare system — one where help comes when you call and takes care of you.

Because in an emergency, you shouldn’t have to struggle to reach help — help should reach you.

🌍Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

29/10/2025

When well-functioning public Emergency Departments (EDs) don’t exist, patients die waiting for help.

Overcrowded rooms, limited equipment, and exhausted staff doing their best with what little they have are the realities in many public EDs across Kenya today. At EMKF, we’re working with governments to build and strengthen public EDs to save lives.

Because a healthcare system that can’t respond to emergencies cannot save lives.

🌍Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

27/10/2025

🚨 Webinar Alert! 🚨

📅 This Thursday
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EAT
📌 Topic: Cardiac Arrest — New Resuscitation Guidelines

Every second counts during a cardiac arrest. ⏱️ Join us for this critical session hosted with Online as we unpack the latest international resuscitation guidelines and discuss what’s new, what’s changed, and what it means for emergency care providers.

Learn how the updated recommendations will help you:
✅ Deliver high-quality CPR and defibrillation more effectively
✅ Improve recognition and early response to cardiac arrest
✅ Strengthen team coordination and communication during resuscitation
✅ Optimize post-resuscitation care for better outcomes
✅ Align practice with the most current evidence-based standards

This engaging session will provide practical insights and clinical updates to help you deliver the best possible care when every second counts.

💻 Don’t miss out — stay up to date and save more lives!

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/4hFxDC4

24/10/2025

When emergency services don’t exist, communities become their own first responders.

They lift, carry, and pray — because there’s no one else to call, and no flashing lights or sirens racing to help like you’ve seen on TV.

This is the reality for over 12,000 Kenyans every year who are injured in road traffic crashes...especially on the weekends.

Because emergencies don’t wait — they kill.

Learn how we are fixing this at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

22/10/2025

When public ambulance services don’t exist, emergencies become tragedies.

Every minute matters — but for too many mothers across Kenya, help never comes.

At the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF), we’re working with governments to build a future where emergency medical care is accessible to everyone — where trained responders, public ambulances, and public emergency departments stand ready to save lives when it matters most.

Because no woman should die bringing life into the world.

Learn more at: https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa