“It doesn’t treat the patient, but it buys time.”
Dr. Robert Bartlett
ECMO doesn’t cure disease—it buys something far more precious: time. Time for injured lungs to rest, time for a failing heart to recover, and time for clinicians to correct what would otherwise be irreversible. In critical care, time is often the difference between loss and survival, and ECMO exists precisely for that narrow window where conventional therapy has run out. Sometimes saving a life begins by giving the body a second chance.
The Race Has Begun
ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is no longer futuristic medicine—it is a life-saving reality for patients with severe cardiac and respiratory failure when conventional therapy fails. Around the world, ECMO has become a standard rescue therapy. In East Africa, however, access remains limited, fragmented, or absent—often meaning that young, salvageable patients simply run out of options.
We believe that has to change. And it starts now.
At Najmi Consultancy, we are initiating structured ECMO program development in Tanzania, not as a distant ambition, but as an active challenge:
Who will be the first hospital in Tanzania to build a safe, sustainable, team-based ECMO program?
And more importantly—who will follow next?
What We Do (And Do Differently)?
We don’t just talk ECMO—we integrate it.
Our ECMO services are designed to take hospitals from intent to implementation, including:
- ECMO program feasibility and readiness assessment
- End-to-end ECMO program setup
- Team training for doctors, perfusionists, nurses, and ICU staff
- Remote and in-person ECMO team and multidisciplinary training
- ECMO department management
- Clinical support and guidance for ECMO runs (selection to follow-up)
- Protocols, SOPs, staffing models, and workflows
- Audit, outcomes analysis, and registry support
Whether you are exploring ECMO for the first time or looking to strengthen an existing service, we act as clinical integrators, connecting expertise, systems, and teams into one functioning program.
ECMO in East Africa is no longer a question of if.
It’s a question of who leads—and who follows.
The challenge is open.