Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned

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Title

Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned

Subject

Emergency first aid responder
Community-based responder
Community-based organisations
Systems
EMS
Prehospital

Description

The emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system was designed as a low-cost and adaptable community-based prehospital
emergency care system, and was first published after conducting a study in the township of Manenberg,
South Africa, in 2010. EFARs are laypersons who are trained to respond to emergencies in their communities,
and can provide support to the emergency medical services (EMS) by providing early clinical care, reporting
back about the scene, and assisting with local scene management and logistics. Over the past ten years in South
Africa, the Western Cape Government Health (WCGH) EMS and the Western Cape Government (WCG) College of
Emergency Care have implemented the EFAR system in multiple communities and have trained over 10,000 community
members across the Western Cape. This report is a ten-year update on what has happened since the EFAR
system started, and to candidly show how the system has evolved, what has been learned, and what challenges
remain so that others could look ahead and plan accordingly as they develop similar community-based first aid
responder systems in resource-constrained areas. Core pillars to the EFAR system’s success have included community
involvement and adaptation, collaboration with the WCGH EMS and WCG College of Emergency Care,
opportunities for community and EMS development, and emphasis on the sustainability of local EFAR systems.
Multiple challenges also remain that others may likely face.

Creator

Marcus Slingers,Simonay De Vos,Jared H Sun, MD, PhD, MBA

Source

www.elsevier.com/locate/afjem

Publisher

elsevier

Date

20 June 2022

Contributor

peri irawan

Format

pdf

Language

english

Type

text

Files

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,Repository, Repository Horizon University Indonesia, Repository Universitas Horizon Indonesia, Horizon.ac.id, Horizon University Indonesia, Universitas Horizon Indonesia, HorizonU, Repo Horizon ,

Citation

Marcus Slingers,Simonay De Vos,Jared H Sun, MD, PhD, MBA, “Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 14, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2078.