The third volunteer Gastroenterology team for the year, of Dr Digby Cullen, Dr Niroshan Muwanwella, Ms Nicolle Harrison and Ms Zara Webb-Martin, ran a surgical program and training in four cities in Madagascar over two weeks. Traveling extensively, the team worked...
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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...60th Sea Container!! Medical Equipment for Dessie, Ethiopia
In response to the Ethiopian crisis, Australian Doctors for Africa has sent a sea container of donated medical equipment to Dessie Referral Hospital, a looted and damaged hospital located 400 km north of the capital, Addis Ababa. Equipment included operating tables, anaesthesia machine, beds, mattresses, wheelchairs, PPE and theatre supplies, which will support the setting up of an operating theatre and refurbishment of...Orthopaedic Implants Donated to Ethiopia
In response to the Ethiopian crisis, Australian Doctors for Africa has donated large consignments of orthopaedic plates, screws and equipment to four Ethiopian hospitals in Addis Ababa, Wolaita Sodo, Gondar and Hossana. “The whole donation let us see that still we have hope in changing the life of our patients” said Dr Abinet Hailemariam, Head of Orthopaedics Department, Wolaita Sodo University Teaching Referral...
Gastroenterology Team Helps Many in Madagascar
Volunteer Urology Team Visits Madagascar
The Ballarat-based volunteer Urology team of Dr Lydia Johns Putra (Urologist and team leader), Dr Craig Mitchell (Anaesthetist – and amazing photographer!) and Nick Veldhuis (Theatre Nurse) visited Tulear in south-western Madagascar to provide a much needed urology...
ENT Program in Medical Forum
Read this terrific article in Medical Forum about the amazing achievements of the ADFA ENT program in Madagascar, lead by Dr Latif Kadhim. https://www.medicalhub.com.au/madagascar-hears-australian-doctors-for-africa/ ADFA acknowledges support from St John of God...
Arthroscopy Equipment and Training for Madagascar
Mr Paul Maloney, ADFA volunteer orthopaedic technician, has successfully installed the first arthroscopy stacks in all of Madagascar. Two units were used for the first time by Dr Graham Forward, Prof Duval and Prof Jean Claude and their teams. Thank you to St John of...
Cocktail Party a Huge Fundraising Success
Over 220 people enjoyed a wonderful night at the Sea View Golf Club and raised over $143,000 towards the building of a new Endoscopy Centre in Madagascar. Guests included the Ambassador to Madagascar, HE Jenny Dee, Nicola Forrest AO, Stephen Smith (past Minister of...
Orthopaedics Team Mission to Ethiopia
A volunteer orthopaedics team recently returned from a two week mission to Ethiopia providing training and medical assistance at hospitals in Hossana and Addis Ababa. The team were warmly welcomed for ADFA's first visit to the Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Referral...
Vascular Surgery Workshop a First in Ethiopia!
Thanks to Clin A/ Prof Carsten Ritter and Prof Paul Norman, two Consultant Vascular Surgeons from Fiona Stanley Hospital, for arranging and presenting the very first Vascular Surgery Workshop offered to orthopaedic surgeons in Ethiopia. Sixteen orthopaedic surgeons...
Somaliland Midwifery and Rehabilitation Volunteers
Judy Thompson, ADFA volunteer Midwife, recently spent 16 days providing at Edna Adan University Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, conducting clinical teaching and providing medical assistance to mothers and their babies. Judy spent long days at the hospital caring for...
You’re Invited to a Cocktail Party, 6 September 2019
An opportunity to help one of the poorest countries in the world whilst sampling some hand-picked Margaret River wines. Australian Doctors for Africa and the Rotary Club of Crawley have joined forces to raise funds to build a new Endoscopy Unit in Madagascar, one of...
Orthopaedics Team Helping People in Madagascar
Thanks to an incredible ADFA volunteer team of Dr Li-On Lam, Orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Bob Jang, Orthopaedics registrar, nurses Lucy Harris and Cherrie Genat, and Rob Genat (logistics), who recently travelled to Tulear, Madagascar. During their visit to three hospitals...
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