After training Ukrainian medical professionals in ESI triage, we assisted with their first ESI training sessions for hospital staff in Lviv.
The five-level ESI (Emergency Severity Index) triage procedure improves patient safety and prioritization. Participants in the first courses were highly motivated and gratefully accepted the training. With approximately 200 training participants, a noticeable impact on staff and patients will soon become apparent.
Together with the team of instructors, we are already thinking about how we can further develop the project in the future and expand it to other regions of Ukraine. We are particularly pleased that the participants in the first courses immediately recommended the program to others, resulting in hundreds of new registrations for upcoming courses. More and more hospitals are proactively reaching out to our partners in Lviv and Ternopil, asking them to hold ESI courses on-site.
The circumstances under which our partners in Ukraine work became strikingly clear during our stay: on several occasions, training sessions had to be moved to bunkers at short notice due to air raid alerts.
We are all the more pleased to see the great interest and enthusiasm with which the trainees attend the courses, always keeping their goal of further improving the situation for their patients firmly in mind.
Many thanks to our partners, without whom this important project would not be possible: Ternopil Medical University, the Unbroken Foundation, Unbroken University, and the GIZ Hospital Partnerships Support Program.