Five medical volunteers returned from a very busy and successful two-week medical mission to Moroni, capital of Comoros. Huge thanks to our volunteers: Josiane Sabouriaut – Team Leader and Theatre Nurse Lachlan Milne (Orthopaedic surgeon) Miles Earl (Anaesthetist)...
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RFDS WA Donates Medical Equipment
Huge thanks to Paul, Carmen and Hayley and the team at Royal Flying Doctors Service WA for donating a trailer load of decommissioned equipment – ventilators, defibrillators, patient monitors, laryngoscopes and handheld blood testing machines. Thanks also to our super logistics volunteer, Graeme Wilson, for helping transport the equipment. Collaboration between organisations such as ADFA and RFDS provide effective and...Support for Damaged Ethiopian Hospital
Wollo University Dessie Teaching and Referral Hospital is the most important health facility in the Amhara region in northern Ethiopia with a catchment area of 10 million people. During the recent Ethiopian conflict, the hospital sustained significant damage and looting. Our aim was to support the refurbishment of 1-2 functioning operating theatres and wards to allow vital surgery to recommence as quickly as possible. The...Infection Control Training for Ethiopian Nurses
Australian Doctors for Africa arranged 4-day Infection Control Training Seminars for two rural hospitals in south west Ethiopia, Wolaita Sodo and Hossana, and soon to be a third in Hawassa. The training covers hand hygiene; standard precautions; sterilising, care and maintenance of instruments; prevention of fracture related infections; and environmental sanitation of an operating theatre. Nearly 40 operating theatre nurses...Continuing PPE Support for Health Care Workers in Madagascar
Australian Doctors for Africa recently provided a large quantity of PPE to Endoscopy Units at five hospitals in Madagascar. Supplies included 4,800 face masks, 35,000 gloves, 350 Tyvec jumpsuits and 40 face shields, which will help reduce the spread of COVID-19 amongst healthcare workers. These supplies were purchased in-country, and we thank our staff in Madagascar, Hanitra and Lucile, for arranging distribution to and...
Comoros Mission Helps Many
Nell Gray Fashions Donates Scrubs
A huge thank you to Paula Forrest and the team at Nell Gray Fashions in Bayswater for donating hundreds of new scrubs (not required due to hospital closures). Nell Gray has been a great supporter of Australian Doctors for Africa donating uniforms and scrubs on many...
New Anaesthetic Machine Donated for Madagascar
A new Glostavent Helix anaesthetic machine, donated by Australian Doctors for Africa to Clinique St Luc, in Tulear, Madagascar in action. Providing equipment is a major strategic priority which supports our skills improvement program. ADFA's programs in Madagascar...
Channel 10 News!
Did you catch us on the Channel 10 News on Friday night? If not click below to see the fantastic work our nurses and doctors are doing in Madagascar, with support from the Australian NGO Cooperation Program.
Yin & Yang – Digby Cullen & Graham Forward
Read the Yin & Yang article featured in The West Magazine on 29 September 2018 about how Dr Digby Cullen, Gastroenterologist, and Dr Graham Forward, ADFA Founder and CEO worked together to grow a charity that provides medical assistance and training in Africa....
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