Table 6 Findings related to facility care
From: Emergency care in post-conflict settings: a systematic literature review
Reception | Emergency unit care | Disease presentation |
|---|---|---|
Local emergency department administrators are not trained to manage EUs in Afghanistan [36] | No centralized EU, patients left to self-triage in Kosovo [39] | Symptoms consistent with PTSD and major depression in nearly half of patients presenting for care [19, 41] |
| Â | EDs staffed by general practitioners with little or no emergency care training [36] | Â |
| Â | No specialty societies or post-graduate training programs in EM were identified in Rwanda [44] | Â |
| Â | Need for greater capacity among untrained frontline health care workers [37] | Â |
| Â | Bulk of trauma managed at regional hospital level [29] | Â |