EFA Meeting Berlijn, 11 & 12/11/2009

1 year EBCA: status• Founded in October 2008 to better

support the national burn patient associations, – in a coordinated way– In a permanent way (sec., HQ fix)– In order to better defend the rights of

the burn patients on a European level (towards EU officials and stakeholders)

– With a central information point– Funded by all parties concerned with

better prevention and better rights for the burn patients

• Starting to communicate to all parties involved in its targets

Presence of 1Y EBCA in Europe

What is the focus for members?STEP 1: information/campaign sharing between members on

the activities of national EBCA members• Focussing on the major causes of fatalities in Europe • Information gathering/sharing on specific situations where a large

amount of people are involved• Information sharing on new techniques, cheap but effective• Helping EBCA members to learn from partner members to make

better campaigns in their own country or to save money and time to reach their targets (reducing the number of burn victims in Europe and defending the rights of burn patients) . This experience exchange is with copyright respect but without cost for the learning national EBCA member

• Going for solutions towards the EBCA targets in solid, reasonable and economically viable solutions

• From the point of view of prevention, better care and after care of casualties

Some examples of what we have done in Y1

• Gathering statistics from a hospital point of view– Where do burn patients get in the statistics?– What are some figures about the intake of burn

patients– Reasons for the differences between countries

• The cooperation with Busworld on burn incidents with busses.

The intake of burn patients

• Burn patients are taken care of in different places:

Specialised burn centers

Periferal hospital centers

ER in hospitals

GP’s, nursing, pharmacy

What are the statistics per country?

(in nr of patients)

Type of place

B NL FR G

Specialised burn centers

1.300(6 BC)

600(3BC)

3.500(22 BC)

1.838(19 BC)

Only adults

Periferal burn centers

2.500 5006.500

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ER in hospitals 7.500 13.200 ?

GP, nurses, pharmacies

90.000 80.000 390.000 ?

Total estimated Approx. 100.000

Approx.95.000

Approx.400.000

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What do we learn from this?

• Some things are not working properly:– Classification of patients according to treatment

places– The number of “hidden” patients is huge

• Why?– Also on the medical side there is not enough

standardisation yet– The competition between burn centers feeds

unwillingness to give the right numbers

The cooperation with Busworld?

• Who is Busworld?– A worldwide organisation for bus transport– Grouping:

• 39.000 tour and bus car operators• More than 100 construction companies of busses• 6 specialist trade fairs and congresses all over the

world (Kortrijk, Shanghai, Mumbai, Nigeria, Brasil, Turkey)

– Headquarter situated in Belgium (Roeselare)

The cooperation with Busworld?

• Initiative = pro-active from Busworld and EBCA• Biggest will to still improve track record = busses• Trying to exceed the technical level of bus

builders• To go for a multi-competence approach in ideas

that work in other sectors/applications• To help Busworld to keep on improving the

security of transport.• Contributing to the full “Smart Move”

What do we offer to Busworld?

• A multi level contact box• To look upon unsolved issues in another way:

– Better flame retarding and fire detection inside and in motor compartment and toilet (technical expert group to be built)

– Better escape procedures and training of passengers (as standard procedure)

• In order to further improve the already high standard of safety in busses

• By means of bringing the right people together

Questions on…..?