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 service and surgeon training for two weeks. This is the third team of urology volunteers to visit Madagascar in 2019. The team conducted 67 consultations and 44...
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 Subiaco Subiaco, the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) and Air Mauritius. ...
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 God Subiaco, Murdoch Surgicentre and Smith & Nephew. ADFA acknowledges Air Mauritius for increased baggage allowance which assisted with transporting...
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 Foreign Affairs), Fran Logan (MLA), past and present Rotary of Crawley Presidents, and many long-time volunteers and supporters of ADFA. Thank you to everyone who...
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 Hospital in Hossana where the team also completed a scoping study. The team of Tony Jeffries, surgeon; nurses Stephanie Macdonald, Bonnie Millard,...
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 and trainees attended the course which was held over 3 days in Addis Ababa. The course involved teaching management strategies and techniques for vascular trauma...