Tim Baker joined global experts at the 6th World Sepsis Congress to discuss how Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) supports Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care (ECO). Watch his presentation exploring why foundational care is central to improving outcomes for critically ill patients.

A global Training of Trainers in Tanzania is equipping 22 clinicians from 10 countries to teach Essential Emergency and Critical Care: scaling simple, life-saving interventions through local training, and ensuring critically ill patients receive timely, effective care wherever they are.

A new nationwide study from Ethiopia shows rapid ICU expansion but persistent gaps in basic care. The findings highlight the need for Essential Emergency and Critical Care to ensure early recognition and life-saving treatment for all critically ill patients.

The EECC Training of Trainers course in Ethiopia supports building a growing international network of clinicians equipped to teach essential care, spreading practical skills, strengthening local capacity, and accelerating the global implementation of EECC across diverse health systems.

As WHO Member States prepare to adopt the global ECO strategy at WHA 2026, researchers led by Tim Baker argue that Essential Emergency and Critical Care must underpin implementation to ensure equitable, cost-effective, population-level impact through foundational life-saving care for all patients.

At WCA 2026 in Marrakech, EECC Global strengthened global momentum for essential care, with new national society endorsements of the EECC declaration signalling growing recognition that life-saving, basic critical care must be a standard in every hospital.

A simple protocol can transform critical care. In Tanzania, Vital Signs Directed Therapy enabled faster responses to deterioration and improved survival in shock, showing how reliable delivery of basic interventions can save lives even in resource constrained ICUs.

Clinicians from across Africa and beyond gathered in Tanzania to become EECC Champions: equipped to deliver simple, life-saving care. With proven impact, including a 31% reduction in mortality, this workshop is helping turn essential care into standard practice worldwide.

When Christopher arrived at hospital struggling to breathe, staff trained in Essential Emergency and Critical Care recognised dangerously low oxygen levels and acted immediately. Oxygen therapy, careful positioning, and treatment for heart failure stabilised his condition, allowing him to recover and return home.

When baby Clavian developed fever, fast breathing, and low oxygen from pneumonia, health workers trained in Essential Emergency and Critical Care acted quickly. Oxygen, antibiotics, and close monitoring stabilised her condition, allowing her to recover, resume feeding, and return home safely with her family.

Hours after birth, Baby Yusta developed subtle signs of respiratory distress. A nurse trained in Essential Emergency and Critical Care recognised the danger, started oxygen and warming, and called for review. Early action stabilised her condition, allowing her to recover and go home safely.

After nearly drowning, 18-month-old Dailan arrived critically ill at a district hospital in Tanzania. Staff trained in Essential Emergency and Critical Care acted quickly, clearing his airway, giving oxygen and fluids, and monitoring him closely. Within days, he recovered and returned home.

New research highlights how anaesthesiologists can lead improvements in care for critically ill patients through Essential Emergency and Critical Care. By strengthening readiness, teamwork, and basic life-saving interventions, EECC helps ensure patients receive timely care across entire health systems.

New research from the EECC community identifies the top ten priorities to guide essential emergency and critical care research over the next five years. The agenda focuses on understanding critical illness burden, strengthening implementation, and building evidence to improve survival worldwide.

The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists has declared Essential Emergency and Critical Care a patient right. This landmark endorsement strengthens global momentum for EECC and reinforces a simple goal: no critically ill patient should die for lack of basic life-saving care.

Martin Johansson, a Swedish medical student’s research in Addis Ababa assessed the availability of Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) resources across emergency departments. The study highlights gaps in critical care readiness and the potential for EECC to strengthen lifesaving care in rapidly growing urban health systems.

Ethiopia has established its first hospital-based EECC Coordination and Learning Hub at Yekatit Hospital in Addis Ababa, strengthening leadership, coordination, and frontline capacity to deliver essential, life-saving care for critically ill patients across all wards.

When newborn Rodricky turned blue and struggled to breathe, an EECC-trained nurse acted instantly with oxygen and rapid assessment. His oxygen levels rose within minutes, and after a week of specialised care, he went home healthy, proof that timely essential care saves newborn lives.

When 35-year-old Loshen arrived unconscious with dangerously low oxygen levels, an EECC-trained nurse acted quickly with oxygen, fluids, and close monitoring. He stabilised within hours, was diagnosed with malaria, and returned home the next day—alive thanks to timely essential care.

Leaders from across Ethiopia gathered in Addis Ababa for an EECC leadership workshop, reviewing national hospital assessment findings and agreeing practical steps to strengthen the care of critically ill patients through system-level action and quality improvement.