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...
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...
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, * 4 examination tables and * 19 overbed tables. What an amazing effort! Most of this equipment will be shipped to Hargeisa Group Hospital in Somaliland for...
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. The project involved repairs to inside and outside walls, leaking roof, ceilings, walls, lights and air conditioner in theatre, storage unit for CSSD, new...
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, wheelchairs, defibrillators, crutches, gloves, scrubs, face shields and gloves – will improve medical treatment for people in need of trauma and orthopaedic...
Check out our 2020 Annual Report. During a very difficult year for many, support from our generous donors and volunteers still enabled: 29 volunteers to travel overseas and perform 1,028 patient consultations, and 219 surgical procedures, and provide training to 209 medical professionals. We shipped $1,052,298 worth of donated medical equipment and supplies in two sea containers and six air freight pallets, expanded our...