Australian Doctors for Africa presented a remote 2½ hour session on Upper Limb Orthopaedics and Trauma at the Ethiopian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (ESOT) Annual Scientific Meeting held last month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 200 people attended in person...
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Orthopaedic Training at Ethiopian Regional Hospital
Dr Tony Jeffries, orthopaedic surgeon, and Victoria Gibson, theatre nurse, travelled to Hossana, Ethiopia to provide orthopaedic training and mentoring at the Wachemo University Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Referral Hospital. The team participated in daily morning meetings, ward rounds, outpatient clinics, and 3 major surgeries. A major focus was tutorial-style teaching sessions with 8 trainee Orthopaedic Surgeons on...AAMEG Change-Maker Award Winner!
Australian Doctors for Africa has won the 2023 AAMEG The Change-Maker Award for a Not-For-Profit/Charity (sponsored by Perenti) for our Madagascar Clubfoot Program! This program changes the lives of children and their families. Congratulations and thanks to the dedicated clubfoot team in Madagascar, managed by Lucile Rasamison in Toliara, with clinical support by Dr Kate Stannage. Thanks to David McCoy, ADFA Board member,...New ADFA 5 Year Strategic Plan
The Board of Australian Doctors for Africa adopted a new five year Strategic Plan 2023-28, following a successful planning workshop attended by supporters, volunteers, Board members and staff. The Plan will guide the organisation’s activities over the next five years and focus on achieving the following outcomes: Overseas Medical Assignments: Vulnerable people (including women and children) have increased access to...Equipment Donated to Regional Hospital in Madagascar
Donated medical equipment – including 23 hospital beds and mattresses, disabled children wheelchairs, BP monitors, ventilators, PPE and medical consumables – has arrived at the University Hospital Andrainjato, Fianarantsoa, in regional Madagascar. “It is with great pleasure to inform you of the arrival of the materials which is intended for the equipment of the hospital and the new centre for the handling of traffic...Three Sea Containers of Donated Medical Equipment Sailing to Africa!
Thanks to the help of volunteers, over a busy three weeks in June we packed three sea containers of donated medical equipment for partner hospitals in East Africa: Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, in northern Ethiopia, and two for Madagascar – for regional public hospitals in Fianarantsoa and Toliara, and supplies for our ADFA medical volunteer program. Nearly 600 items were loaded, including 63 hospital beds &...
On-line Orthopaedics Training Continues
Orthopaedics Implants for Somaliland
The Orthopaedics team at Hargeisa Group Hospital in Somaliland expressed their appreciation when they received two packages donated by Australian Doctors for Africa. “Your continuous support and donations of orthopaedic implants and instruments is incredible and...
Hossana Orthopaedics Department Inauguration
“I would like to show appreciation and recognition for what you have done to establish our orthopedic center. I have no words to tell you that today is special day for me and my colleagues because its a day of inauguration of orthopedic center. I would like to thank...
Two Containers of Medical Equipment for Somaliland
Australian Doctors for Africa recently purchased and delivered a 20ft sea container of 43 beds, cots, examination tables, delivery beds and instrument trolleys for Hargeisa Group Hospital, Diversity Action Network (DAN) and Beerwayso Rural Clinic. A 40ft sea container...
We Packed Our 59th Sea Container of Donated Medical Equipment!
Massive thanks to our committed volunteers - Graeme Wilson, Jake Warman and Lions Club of Claremont-Nedlands members, Lex Thomson, John Barnett, Andrew Porteous, and Steve Andrews - for helping us pack a sea container with donated medical equipment for the Hargeisa...
Continuing to Support Health Professionals from a Distance
Over the past 12 months, in lieu of visiting due to COVID travel restrictions, many of our volunteers have continued to support and mentor health care professionals in the four East African countries we assist. By providing equipment, on-line training, and ongoing...
Heat Sealer Improves Equipment Sterilisation
Chief Theatre Nurse Jerry Amanu Legesse and the Central Supply team at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia gratefully received an ADFA purchased Steriking RotoSealer and 100s of pouches, which will significantly improve surgical equipment and implant...
SJOG Subiaco Hospital Donates Hospital Beds
Thanks St John of God Subiaco Hospital for donating much needed equipment to Australian Doctors for Africa. Over three afternoons, with the fantastic help of volunteers from the Lions Club of Claremont Nedlands and ADFA, we loaded: * 46 hospital beds and mattresses,...
Renovating Operating Theatre at Hargeisa Group Hospital
The finished renovation at Hargeisa Group Hospital looks amazing - what an improvement, especially the operating theatre! The enhancements will provide a safe, clean environment for the orthopaedics department and improve medical care for Somaliland people in need....
Equipment for New Orthopaedic Department, Hossana, Ethiopia
The Wachemo University Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Referral Hospital in Hossana gratefully received a 40ft sea container of donated medical equipment for their new orthopaedic wards. The equipment and supplies - operating tables, hospital beds, mattresses,...
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