ArticlePrehospital and disaster medicine2020
The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone.
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- Public health system in post-pandemic Sierra Leone: a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Stress in emergency telephone number operators during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of self-efficacy and Big Five personality traits.Health psychology report · 2023Article
- Response to Mass-Casualty Incidents and Outbreaks: A Prehospital Disaster Training Package Developed for the National Emergency Medical Service in Sierra Leone.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2022Article
- Epidemiological Trends of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Sierra Leone From March 2020 to October 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Factors Associated with Willingness to Call Emergency Medical Services for Worsening Symptoms of COVID-19 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2022Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone.BMJ global health · 2021Article
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Abstract
This report describes the main adaptive and transformative changes adopted by the brand-new National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) to face the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sierra Leone, including ambulance re-distribution, improvements in communication flow, implementation of ad-hoc procedures and trainings, and budget re-allocation. In a time-span of four months, 1,170 COVID-19 cases have been handled by the NEMS through a parallel referral system, while efforts have been made to manage the routine emergencies of the country, causing a substantial intensification of daily activities.
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