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Orthopaedics Team Mission to Ethiopia
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,...Vascular Surgery Workshop a First in Ethiopia!
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...Somaliland Midwifery and Rehabilitation Volunteers
Judy Thompson, ADFA volunteer Midwife, recently spent 16 days providing at Edna Adan University Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, conducting clinical teaching and providing medical assistance to mothers and their babies. Judy spent long days at the hospital caring for 62 mothers and 84 babies, and training medical students, doctors, nurses and midwives. Particular emphasis was placed improving cleaning procedures,...You’re Invited to a Cocktail Party, 6 September 2019
An opportunity to help one of the poorest countries in the world whilst sampling some hand-picked Margaret River wines. Australian Doctors for Africa and the Rotary Club of Crawley have joined forces to raise funds to build a new Endoscopy Unit in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world with a huge burden of gastrointestinal diseases. The aim is to provide a first world level endoscopy unit for treating and...Orthopaedics Team Helping People in Madagascar
Thanks to an incredible ADFA volunteer team of Dr Li-On Lam, Orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Bob Jang, Orthopaedics registrar, nurses Lucy Harris and Cherrie Genat, and Rob Genat (logistics), who recently travelled to Tulear, Madagascar. During their visit to three hospitals in Tulear the team performed 63 consultations, 7 major operations and carried out daily ward rounds for post operative patients. The team also provided...
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