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PREHOSPITAL AND DISASTER MEDICINE
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 693-697Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X20001211
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COVID-19; Emergency Medical Services; prehospital care; Sierra Leone
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This report describes the main adaptive and transformative changes adopted by the brand-new National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) to face the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sierra Leone, including ambulance re-distribution, improvements in communication flow, implementation of ad-hoc procedures and trainings, and budget re-allocation. In a time-span of four months, 1,170 COVID-19 cases have been handled by the NEMS through a parallel referral system, while efforts have been made to manage the routine emergencies of the country, causing a substantial intensification of daily activities.
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