The first Tanzanian Conference on Emergency Medicine

On September 2016, Dar es Salaam – the commercial capital of Tanzania – hosted the first, ever Tanzanian conference on Emer- gency Medicine with the theme: State of Emergency Medicine in Tanzania: Knowledge, Resources and Long-term Sustainability. The conference was organized by the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (EMAT) and was supported by the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Abbott Fund Tanzania, Emergency Medicine Department of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, and Muhimbili National Hospital. The goal of the conference was to bring together health care providers with active involvement in emergency care within Tanzania, to establish a country- and regional wide network that could interpret the state of emergency medicine practiced locally and hence share and support the initiatives that can foster growth within Tanzania.