An ENT team, led by Dr Latif Kadhim, had a very successful mission to Madagascar recently with 179 clinical consultations (66 children) and performing 18 surgical operations (13 children), with follow up twice daily ward rounds. Nine people were fitted with donated...
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Celebrating World Clubfoot Day – 3 June 2022
Australian Doctors for Africa celebrates World Clubfoot Day on 3 June by thanking and acknowledging our Clubfoot staff in Madagascar and Diversity Action Network in Somaliland for making a huge difference in the lives of many children every year. Clubfoot is the most common musculoskeletal birth deformity, affecting 200,000 newborn children each year. The clinics treat over 200 children a year using the Ponseti Method. We...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...
ADFA ENT Team First Mission to Madagascar a Big Success
WA Surgeons Ball 2019
The RACS WA Surgeons Ball is just around the corner and they have had a fabulous response to date from fellows, with the event almost sold out. For those still thinking of attending, RACS WA is preparing to take you on a unique winter experience where elegant &...
Opening of Orthopaedic Renovations at Cenhosoa Hospital, Madagascar
Australian Doctors for Africa was pleased to partner with the Australian Ambassador to Madagascar, HE Ms Jenny Dee for the inauguration of the renovated Orthopaedics and Traumatology Ward of the Centre Hospitalier de Soavinandriana (Cenhosoa) in the Madagascan...
Sea Containers Packed for Ethiopia and Somaliland
Last week a band of wonderful volunteers packed two 40ft sea containers with donated medical equipment and supplies, bound for hospitals in Harar, Ethiopia and Hargeisa, Somaliland. These shipments are part of our infrastructure program which provides equipment for...
ADFA Cocktail Party a Big Success!
Thank you to everyone who attended the Australian Doctors for Africa Cocktail Party held at Blue HQ in Fremantle last month and made it a wonderful evening and a fundraising success. Huge thanks to volunteers Chris and Eric Tasker, Philly and John McLean, Jane...
Australian Doctors for Africa Cocktail Party 2019
Please join us for a fabulous night of canapes, drinks, silent auction and much more! The Australian Doctors for Africa 2019 Cocktail Party is our major fundraising event for 2019, so please come along to help us raise funds to continue providing medical assistance to...
Sarcoma Training in Ethiopia
The Musculoskeletal Tumour Course, organised and run collaboratively by Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK; the CURE Hospital, Ethiopia; and Australian Doctors for Africa, was held from 8-10...
2018 Annual Report
Australian Doctors for Africa 2018 Annual Report is now available. Support from our generous donors enabled us to send 56 volunteers overseas who performed 1,550 patient consultations and 428 surgical procedures, and provided training to 684 medical professionals. ...
Comoros Mission Helps Many
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)...
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...
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