Essential Emergency and Critical Care: Training, Tools and Implementation in Tanzania

UNICEF/Child Health Taskforce Webinar
Thursday 11th Sep 2025
9am–10.15am EST, 1pm–2.15pm UTC, 4pm–5.15pm EAT

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The Global Oxygen Alliance is encouraging those interested to attend this webinar, given the key role oxygen plays in saving lives of children in critical care, thus making oxygen an important part of the EECC continuum.

Throughout the world, critical illness (acute, life-threatening disease) is common in children and adults. Providing critically ill patients with good quality care is a priority for health systems, and yet has been underprioritized.

The Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) approach focuses on the first-line, most fundamental and cost-effective care for all wards and units in all health facilities. Evidence is growing that EECC can be highly effective and cost-effective and has the potential to save many lives. EECC was presented at a UNICEF/Child Health Taskforce webinar in 2022 and since then, EECC training and tools have been developed and implemented in collaboration with UNICEF ESARO, UNICEF Tanzania, the Ministry of Health in Tanzania and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. The materials are user-friendly and pragmatic and ready to download and use across the world.

This webinar will share information about EECC, the available training and tools, and the lessons learned in Tanzania when implementing EECC.

The webinar will be held in English, with French translation.

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions (Anne Detjen) (5 minutes)
Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC), the training and tools (Tim Baker) (10 minutes)
Implementing EECC in Tanzania (Iban Kafumu) (10 minutes)
Supporting Implementation: UNICEF’s Health and PHC programming (Jennifer Ibarack) (10 minutes)
Panel discussion, Q&A (Iban Kafumu & Jennifer Ibarack) (30 minutes)

Presenters

Tim Baker is a critical care specialist and Associate Professor at Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and consultant with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office. His work focuses on improving the provision of care to critically ill children and adults.
📧 tbaker@unicef.org

Iban Kafumu is a physician and public health specialist working as a Health Specialist with UNICEF Tanzania. He leads implementation for the health team in Tanzania, working closely with the government of Tanzania and other partners in improving health facilities in the country.
📧 bkafumu@unicef.org

Jennifer Ibarack is a regional health specialist, responsible for child health and community-based primary health care for UNICEF ESARO.
📧 jbarack@unicef.org