Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC)

8 September, 2025

Hi CHIFA,

Most critically ill neonates, children and adults aren’t in ICUs.They’re on general wards — often unnoticed and without timely oxygen, iv fluids or other critical treatments. And too many die as a result.

After 20 years working in critical care, I’ve seen this again and again — in Sweden, in Malawi, in Tanzania, and throughout the world. The problem is not a lack of specialist care. It’s a lack of the basics.

That’s why Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) has been started and the organisation EECC Global has been set up www.eeccglobal.org<http://www.eeccglobal.org/>. The vision is clear: no one should die of a cause that EECC could prevent.

Evidence about the need for EECC is growing. Modelling suggests that EECC could save up to 1 million lives every year. It’s low-cost, feasible in any hospital, and proven to work.

Now is the time to make EECC a global standard.

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Yours

Tim

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