Buy One Gift One - Basic Emergency Care

Helping strengthen emergency care

In an emergency, healthcare workers need to respond quickly and confidently. However, frontline teams in many parts of the world have limited opportunities to practice managing these situations before they encounter them in real life.

Through the Buy One, Gift One program, every Emergency Care Learning Lab purchased for use in a high-income country helps expand access to hands-on emergency care training in places where training opportunities are limited.

How Buy One, Gift One works

With every purchase of an Emergency Care Learning Lab through Laerdal Medical for use in a high-income country, another one is donated. Laerdal Global Health strategically allocates the training equipment to high-impact partner programs in low-income countries, working with local partners to ensure it reaches frontline healthcare teams where it can make the greatest difference.

1050 kits donated so far

20 countries supported

The Lifeline Fund

The Lifeline Fund was established to scale the Basic Emergency Care training program to 777 facilities across four African countries.

This is the biggest coordinated implementation of the Basic Emergency Care program ever done. An Emergency Care Learning Lab has been donated to each of the 777 health facilities to support ongoing team-training.

The goal is to help save 50,000 additional lives each year.

BEC BOGO video

1,000 Kits to be donated

1,000 Facilities to be reached

50,000 Estimated lives saved

The impact

How BEC is saving lives in Uganda

Dr. Simon Tumusimee, Emergency Doctor at African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM), shares how hands-on training helps healthcare workers build confidence and prepare for time-critical emergencies in East Africa.

Bringing practical emergency care training closer to care

Dr. Tsion Firew, Advisor to the Health Minister and practicing doctor at King Faisal Hospital, shares how the Emergency Care Learning Lab has helped make a difference in scaling Basic Emergency Care training in Rwanda.

Training that travels across the Pacific

Rob Mitchell, Program Lead for Emergency Care at RECCSSI, shares how the initial donation of 15 Emergency Care Learning Labs has helped scale Basic Emergency Care to the Pacific Islands, helping new facilitators take emergency care training back to their countries and communities.

A backpack full of lifesaving skills

The Emergency Care Learning Lab (ECLL) is a portable training kit designed to build the foundational life-saving skills of healthcare workers through hands-on practice. This practical package provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to manage critical emergencies in low-resource settings.