ETAT+ Course

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Deaths in hospital often occur within 24 hours of admission. Many of these deaths could be prevented if very sick children are identified soon after their arrival in the health facility, and treatment is started immediately.

The Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) course is a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiated course that trains health personnel in identifying these children so that the most unwell children are treated promptly and effectively and thereby unnecessary deaths are avoided.

With support from the David Baum International Foundation, our partners in Kenya have been able to train several hundred Kenyan doctors, extend the course to Rwanda and Uganda, train 60 course instructors and enabled the course to be accepted in the undergraduate curriculum of over 70% of Kenya’s future doctors.

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