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Our Stories
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 you once again for helping me achieve my dream.” Dr Habtamu Tamrat, Orthopedic Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. ADFA provided a sea container...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 full of donated medical equipment also arrived from Perth containing 32 hospital beds and mattresses, 4 examination tables, wheelchairs, gloves, resuscitators,...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 Group Hospital, Edna Adan Hospital, Diversity Action Network and Taakulo Somali Community in Somaliland. With some skilled packing we fitted 200 items...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 mentoring and advice, we are able to continue to train and support specialists, nurses and technicians, so they can continue to provide medical assistance to their...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 sterilising. Huge thanks to Irene Sheldrake for sourcing the equipment and supplies. Irene participated in two ADFA volunteer training missions to Ethiopia in 2019...
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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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