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ArticlePrehospital and disaster medicine2022

Response to Mass-Casualty Incidents and Outbreaks: A Prehospital Disaster Training Package Developed for the National Emergency Medical Service in Sierra Leone.

Marta Caviglia, José Alberto da Silva-Moniz, Francesco Venturini, Amara Jambai, Matthew Jusu Vandy, Abdul Rahman Wurie, Moi T Sartie, Giovanni Putoto, Luca Ragazzoni

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Article in Prehospital and disaster medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Marta CavigliaCRIMEDIM - Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4164-4756
José Alberto da Silva-MonizDoctors with Africa - CUAMM, Padova, Veneto, Italy.
Francesco VenturiniDoctors with Africa - CUAMM, Padova, Veneto, Italy.
Amara JambaiMinistry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone.
Matthew Jusu VandyMinistry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone.
Abdul Rahman WurieThe National Emergency Medical Service - NEMS, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Moi T SartieThe National Emergency Medical Service - NEMS, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Giovanni PutotoDoctors with Africa - CUAMM, Padova, Veneto, Italy.
Luca RagazzoniCRIMEDIM - Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sierra Leone is a country highly prone to disasters, still recovering from the catastrophic 2014 Ebola epidemic. In 2018, the country launched its first National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) aiming to strengthen the provision of essential health services to the population with the long-term goal of creating a resilient health system able to effectively respond to and recover from emergencies. The Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health (CRIMEDIM), together with the Italian NGO Doctors with Africa (CUAMM), under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), developed a prehospital Disaster Training Package (DTP) to be delivered to all NEMS personnel to boost the prehospital management of mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) and outbreaks. The DTP included a first phase in which NEMS local trainers underwent a training-of-trainers (ToT) course, enabling them to deliver cascade trainings to 16 district ambulance supervisors, 441 paramedics, 441 ambulance drivers, and 36 operators working in the NEMS operation center. This on-going training package represents the first Disaster Medicine training course for prehospital health professionals in Sierra Leone.

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Emergency Medical ServicesHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaMass Casualty IncidentsDisease OutbreaksHumansSierra Leonedisaster medicine trainingEmergency Medical Servicemass-casualty incidentsoutbreaksSierra Leone

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PMCPMC9470523

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