Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation

29/12/2025

2025 in Review | Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation

In Kenya, emergencies don’t wait.
And for too long, help arrived too late.

In 2025, we worked with governments, healthcare workers, and communities to close the gap between emergencies and lifesaving care.

• Training community responders to act before it’s too late
• Supporting county ambulance services and dispatch coordination
• Strengthening public emergency departments to be ready when patients arrive
• Training healthcare workers to deliver timely, lifesaving emergency care
• Partnering with county governments to build systems that last

This year wasn’t about projects.
It was about building emergency healthcare systems, so help comes when it’s needed, not after.

Because emergency medical care only saves lives when systems work.

Thank you to our partners, supporters, and frontline providers who made this possible.

As we head into 2026, our focus remains clear:
Do more to save lives.

26/12/2025

This year, the difference is clear — public ambulance services are now available.
In Nyeri and several other counties, emergency response no longer depends only on a relative, friend or a good samaritan.

Public ambulance services are now in place, bringing help closer to the people who need it most.

📲 Download the Casualty App from your App Store to access county emergency numbers whenever you need them — quickly, easily, and when every second counts.

Learn more:
🌍 www.emergencymedicinekenya.org/casualty

🥳SAFE CELEBRATIONS, SWIFT EMERGENCY RESPONSE 🥳

Happy Festivities

24/12/2025

This holiday season, we’re grateful for the emergency healthcare providers who keep working while others celebrate, ensuring help is always within reach.

From all of us at Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation, we wish you peace, good health, and a hopeful year ahead.

Happy Holidays and a prosperous 2026! 🎄✨

19/12/2025

A major milestone for emergency medical care in Embu County 🚑

EMKF, in partnership with the Embu County Government, celebrated the opening of a modern, fully equipped Emergency Department at the Embu Level 5 Hospital, officially opened by Hon. Cecily Mbarire, EGH. The County also launched its Emergency Medical Care Plan, strengthening coordinated emergency medical care across the county.

Serving ~13,000 patients monthly, with 30–40% emergencies, this Emergency Department will help save lives when minutes matter most.

We commend Embu County’s leadership and thank our partners for making this milestone possible.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4s6UcWy

The Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF) is proud to mark a significant milestone in its ongoing effort to strengthen emergency healthcare systems in

05/12/2025

When there’s no single toll-free number to call in a medical emergency, every second is lost finding help.

In Kenya, there isn’t one universal emergency medical care access number that connects you to ambulances, trained responders, and hospitals. So in a crisis, people call whomever they can — friends, family, or strangers — while precious time slips away.

At EMKF, we’re working with national and county governments to build a nationally coordinated emergency healthcare system, where a single toll-free number connects every Kenyan to the help they need, when they need it.

Because no one should die or watch their loved ones die searching for a number to call.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

EMKF met with the CECM for Health Services, Embu County and Members of the CHMT to discuss how to collaborate to improve emergency healthcare service delivery

04/12/2025

Strengthening public ambulance services in Migori County 🚑✨

The recent conclusion of a 10-day Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) training program for Migori County, in partnership with the County Department of Health, marks a meaningful milestone in the county’s efforts to enhance emergency preparedness and strengthen coordination of public ambulance services.

Learn More: https://bit.ly/4irZs2R

04/12/2025

🎄 Webinar Alert!

Monday, 8th December
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EAT
Topic: Game of Life: Christmas Edition

The festive season is here — a time of celebration, travel, and family gatherings. Yet it is also the period when emergencies surge. Road crashes, choking incidents, burns, cardiac arrests, asthma attacks, alcohol-related emergencies, and holiday injuries all increase dramatically, placing extraordinary pressure on emergency healthcare providers across the country.

This Christmas, EMKF, in collaboration with Daktari Online , presents a bigger, bolder, and more competitive edition of the Game of Life — a fast-paced quiz-show experience designed to strengthen your readiness for the high-risk emergencies that define the festive season.

🏆 More Rounds. More Challenges. More Prizes.

Compete, learn, and sharpen your clinical decision-making as you tackle real-world festive emergency scenarios backed by the latest evidence and international best practices.

💻 Don’t Miss Out
Join us for this special festive emergency quiz show — stay prepared, stay informed, and save more lives this December.

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/4hFxDC4

30/11/2025

County government healthcare leadership from more than 30 counties gathered in Nairobi in November for the 2025 EMKF County Leadership Emergency Care Conference to review progress and chart the future of emergency healthcare services in Kenya.

Counties shared achievements, identified critical gaps, and committed to strengthening prehospital care through community first response, establishing public ambulance dispatch systems, setting up public emergency departments, and improving emergency medical care data reporting to support continuous system improvements.

EMKF reaffirmed its partnership with national and county governments to drive evidence-based, equitable emergency healthcare systems across Kenya that save lives.

Learn More: https://bit.ly/487yoSZ

29/11/2025

Strengthening public Emergency Departments is essential to saving lives.

Across Kenya, too many patients arrive at hospitals only to find that the lifesaving care they need is unavailable. At EMKF, we are working with county governments to ensure that every public Emergency Department is properly designed, staffed, and equipped, so that no one dies from a treatable emergency.

Every equipped and functional public Emergency Department brings Kenya one step closer to ensuring that lifesaving care is always within reach.

06/11/2025

When Well Established Public Emergency Departments Don’t Exist, We Build Them.

We are excited to support the Kwale County Government in the renovation of the Emergency Department at the Msambweni Teaching and County Referral Hospital.

The upgraded Emergency Department will expand capacity and be fully equipped to ensure that patients in critical condition receive timely, life-saving care.

The project also includes training emergency healthcare workers, ensuring that lifesaving skills and knowledge are readily available where they are needed most.

At EMKF, we’re partnering with county governments, such as Kwale, to ensure that when someone reaches the hospital in an emergency, their care is managed in a well-functioning Emergency Department — equipped, staffed, and ready to save lives.

Because no one should die after reaching the very place meant to save them.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa

06/11/2025

We are excited to support the Kwale County Government in the renovation of the Accident and Emergency Facility at the Msambweni Teaching and County Referral Hospital.

The upgraded Emergency Department will expand capacity and be fully equipped to ensure that patients in critical condition receive timely, life-saving care.

The project also includes training emergency healthcare workers, ensuring that lifesaving skills and knowledge are readily available where they are needed most.

At EMKF, we’re partnering with county governments, such as Kwale, to ensure that when someone reaches the hospital in an emergency, their care is managed in a well-functioning Emergency Department — equipped, staffed, and ready to save lives.

Because no one should die after reaching the very place meant to save them.

Learn more at https://www.emergencymedicinekenya.org/stories/

31/10/2025

In an emergency, trying to get to the hospital on time is a terrifyingly lonely journey.

You hope. You pray. You hold on — watching the road blur through tears, praying the hospital isn’t too far and that help will be waiting when you arrive.

This is the reality for thousands of families across Kenya every day.
But it doesn’t have to be.

At the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF), we’re working with governments to build a coordinated emergency healthcare system — one where help comes when you call and takes care of you.

Because in an emergency, you shouldn’t have to struggle to reach help — help should reach you.

🌍Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qkSTTa