RECA launches the Rwanda Sepsis Alliance

RSA executives, from left to right: Dr Menelas Nkeshimana (Secretary General), RN Christine Uwineza (Deputy Communication and membership officer), Dr Aurea Nyiraneza (Communication and membership officer), Dr Evariste Mushuru (Chair), Dr Emmanuel Nsutebu (ASA Chair and RSA advisory Board member), Dr Aimee Nyiramahirwe (Deputy Director of Finances), Dr Jean Paul Mvukiyehe (Vice Chair), Dr Vincent Ndebwanimana (Deputy Executive Director), Dr Hippolyte Muhire Bwiza (Executive Director).

On 27 October, at a conference in Kigali organised in the context of the Sepsis 2021 Symposium, the Rwanda Emergency Care Association (RECA) launched the Rwanda Sepsis Alliance (RSA) with the aim to respond to the need of reducing the burden of sepsis in the country. Despite significant improvements in Rwanda’s health system and efforts made by the Government of Rwanda mainly through the Ministry of Health (MoH) in improving the healthcare system, sepsis still claims many lives in Rwanda.

RSA plans to achieve its mission trough the promotion of research, education and training, organizing sepsis awareness campaigns targeting healthcare professionals and lay people, supporting antibiotic stewardship programs and advocating to invest and build necessary infrastructures for improving sepsis prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

The ASA will closely collaborate with and support the RSA and we are looking forward to contributing to improve sepsis awareness and treatment in Rwanda. Read the Kigali declaration announcing the RSA below.