Reference :
V-P-KE-E-00384
Date :
20/06/2023
Caption :
Nairobi. The ICRC and the Norwegian Red Cross, with the participation of the Kenya Red Cross Society, train a rapid deployment team to be operational within the emergency hospital set up by the Norwegian Red Cross.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
"For the last two years, the Nairobi's Logistics Centre (LSC) and Norwegian Red Cross (NorCross) teams have worked tirelessly to prepare the NorCross Emergency Hospital
for rapid deployment. This exceptional facility can be fully operational within 96 hours of an emergency, complete with essential supplies, medications, and a dedicated staff. Building on their extensive experience deploying hospitals and collaborating with the ICRC, NorCross sought to enhance their impact through regular joint deployments.
"This pursuit led to the inception of the NorCross Emergency Hospital Harmonization and Logistics Management Project (NorHosp), which involved transferring logistical responsibilities from Oslo to Nairobi's ICRC LSC. The project aimed to standardize equipment and medication, streamlining future deployments.
"After successful procurement, assembly, and kitting, the emergency hospital now resides in Nairobi's LSC warehouse. Taking their efforts further, the teams recently conducted a comprehensive pre-deployment training in a simulated emergency setting. From June 17th to 24th, over 64 participants and facilitators gathered in Nairobi for this significant training. Notably, this marked the first time the training was held in the field, simulating emergency scenarios.
"During the NorHosp training held in Nairobi, participants were immersed in a series of such challenging scenarios. Volunteers from the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) skillfully portrayed realistic emergencies, catching doctors, surgeons, and nurses off guard. As the training progressed, the medical teams quickly adapted, anticipating patient influx, performing triage, addressing life-threatening situations in the operating theater, and conducting ward rounds as if they were in the midst of a genuine crisis. Guided by 16 dedicated facilitators, the participants remained fully engaged throughout the training.
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"The teams learnt how to work in conflicts and other situations of violence, where stress management and acute contextual awareness are key elements for the effective delivery of services. The training equipped participants with tools to identify security risks and related mitigating actions while ensuring duty of care for all team members. The mass casualty scene tasked them to work outpatient flow systems, reception of patients in the emergency room as well as ensure sphere health guidelines are upheld. Other training elements included the handling of internal and external communication as well as working with host national societies in the areas they are deployed to.
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"Medical teams were required to pre-position themselves from setting up an emergency hospital, managing it and the patients, and after the training, packing up the equipment back into boxes, ready for the next emergency. Most of the hospital setup was carried out by logistics and technicians but the setting up of the Operating theatre was carried out by the doctors."
Source: RedPulse, article 10/08/2023.
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landscape
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