Dr Tony Jeffries, orthopaedic surgeon, and Victoria Gibson, theatre nurse, travelled to Hossana, Ethiopia to provide orthopaedic training and mentoring at the Wachemo University Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Referral Hospital. The team participated in daily morning...
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Supporting Female Orthopaedic Surgeons, Ethiopia
As part of ADFA’s Female Orthopaedic Empowerment (FOE) Program, three female Ethiopian orthopaedic surgeons recently received support to attend training courses/conferences: Dr Bethel Zeleke – the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) 2024 AGM and Conference in Leeds, UK; Dr Bezawit Tsegaye – the 5th Ganga Arthroscopy Course 2024 at Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore India; and Dr Ananya...Ethiopian Orthopaedic Surgeons Awarded Fellowships
ADFA has extended its scholarship program by offering 12-month fellowships for Ethiopian orthopaedic surgeons at the Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India. Congratulations to the successful 2024 applicants: * Dr Bruh Kefale Gebreyes from Haramaya University Hiwot Fana Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Harar. * Dr Tegenu Dinku Gurmu from Jimma University Medical Centre, Jimma. The fellowships commence in July 2024, and...66th Sea Container On Its Way!
A sea container full of donated medical equipment sailed recently for Somaliland hospitals and rural mother and child clinics. Over 400 items were loaded including hospital beds, mattresses, examination tables, birthing beds, incubators, PPE, scrubs, physiotherapy equipment, crutches, wheelchairs for disabled children, and medical supplies. Thanks a million to our hard working volunteer packers – Graeme, Nick, Paul and...Renovation Project at Gondar University Hospital, Ethiopia
The University of Gondar Hospital is a 400 bed university hospital with a large orthopaedics and traumatology department. Following a site visit by ADFA’s CEO, Dr Graham Forward, in March 2023, it was observed that the sanitation facilities of the orthopaedic ward required renovation, to meet hospital standards and improve peri-operative infection rates and overall length of stay for the patients. The successful project,...Orthopaedic Implants & Fellowship for Mekelle University Hospital
Australian Doctors for Africa has donated orthopaedic plates, screws and instruments to the Ayder Comprehensive Specialised Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia. This equipment donation followed a 4 week Fellowship in limb reconstruction surgery at the Centre for Musculoskeletal Infections and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland by Dr Kidane Teka, Ayder Hospital...
Orthopaedic Training at Ethiopian Regional Hospital
AAMEG Change-Maker Award Winner!
Australian Doctors for Africa has won the 2023 AAMEG The Change-Maker Award for a Not-For-Profit/Charity (sponsored by Perenti) for our Madagascar Clubfoot Program! This program changes the lives of children and their families. Congratulations and thanks to the...
New ADFA 5 Year Strategic Plan
The Board of Australian Doctors for Africa adopted a new five year Strategic Plan 2023-28, following a successful planning workshop attended by supporters, volunteers, Board members and staff. The Plan will guide the organisation’s activities over the next five years...
Equipment Donated to Regional Hospital in Madagascar
Donated medical equipment – including 23 hospital beds and mattresses, disabled children wheelchairs, BP monitors, ventilators, PPE and medical consumables - has arrived at the University Hospital Andrainjato, Fianarantsoa, in regional Madagascar. “It is with great...
Three Sea Containers of Donated Medical Equipment Sailing to Africa!
Thanks to the help of volunteers, over a busy three weeks in June we packed three sea containers of donated medical equipment for partner hospitals in East Africa: Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, in northern Ethiopia, and two for Madagascar – for regional public...
Female Orthopaedic Empowerment Project, Ethiopia
ADFA was successful in receiving funding from the Australian Government via a Direct Aid Project grant from the Australian Embassy in Ethiopia for the FEMALE ORTHOPAEDIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT (FOEP) to be implemented in Ethiopia. FOEP aims to contribute to the creation...
Thanks for Donating Medical Equipment!
In the last few months we have received a huge amount of donated equipment and consumables. Massive thanks to: Fremantle, The Mount and SJOG Mt Lawley Hospitals for hospital beds & mattresses, patient trolleys & birthing beds SJOG Subiaco Hospital and Peel...
Orthopaedics Team Returns to Madagascar
For the first time in over 3 years an Orthopaedic Team – surgeon Dr Li-On Lam, nurse Lucy Harris, orthopaedic registrar Dr Tom Christiner (recipient of Stryker Travelling Fellowship Award), and support/logistics officer Cherrie Genat - provided medical training and...
Gastroenterology Team Helping Many People in Madagascar
The team spent a very busy two weeks visiting three hospitals in two cities, completing 325 consultations and 63 surgical procedures, and providing training to 114 medical staff and students. Stuart repaired many pieces of equipment, and serviced all the endoscopic...
World Clubfoot Day, 3 June!
World Clubfoot Day on 3 June raises awareness of clubfoot and the Ponseti method. We thank and acknowledge the great work performed by our ADFA clubfoot staff in Madagascar and the team at Diversity Action Network in Somaliland, who make a huge difference in the...
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