Status Report of Neonatal Emergencies Services in Lubumbashi (DR Congo): Case of University Clinics of Lubumbashi and of the General Hospital of Reference Jason Sendwe

Neonatal mortality is a public health problem around the world. This observation, made on a global, regional and local level, allowed us to identify in this study one of the factors that seems to interfere with the efforts of medical services to improve neonatal care in our living environment. It is about the low quality of care of the neonatal emergencies triage services as noted by an inventory of fixtures of these services in the two reference hospitals in the city of Lubumbashi: The University Clinics and the General Hospital Sendwe. The cross-sectional descriptive type is based on observation and in situ surveys, the study covered the period from 1st October 2018 to 31st March 2019, i.e., a period of 6 months. The status report touched on the following aspects: structural and physical, equipment of the services, medicines inputs, various essential materials, human resources and organization according to an external frame of reference. In the absence of local standards, we relied on recommendations concerning the establishment, the management and the use of a triage room for vital pediatric emergencies following the expert conference of French-speaking society of emergency medicine, French-speaking group of reanimation and pediatric emergency, SAMU of France, Society of anesthesia and reanimation, French-speaking reanimation society, Association of French-speaking pediatric anesthesiologists. It emerges clearly from this study the need to improve the reception frameworks over 90 years old and the structural strengthening of these triage services for vital emergencies (RSVE) at various levels raised.