With fantastic support from our donors and volunteers we achieved some great results in 2022/23. * 141 children treated for clubfoot in Madagascar and Somaliland * 33 scholarships for specialty training, fellowships and medical students * 438 medical professionals...
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2024 Annual Report
With incredible donor, volunteer and corporate support, we have increased our activities and outcomes during 2023/24. * 29 scholarships for specialty training, fellowships and medical students * 486 medical professionals trained * 271 surgical operations & 991 clinical consultations * 189 children treated for clubfoot in Madagascar and Somaliland * $624,000 worth of donated medical equipment and supplies dispatched...Orthopaedics Training Team Visits Ethiopia
Thanks to the volunteer orthopaedics team of Dr Tony Jeffries, Orthopaedic Surgeon, and Stephanie MacDonald, Theatre Nurse, who presented a number of training seminars to surgeons and nurses at three hospitals in Addis Ababa. After a request from a number of Ethiopian surgeons earlier in the year, Tony presented an Open Techniques for Management of Recurrent Shoulder Dislocation Course at the Black Lion Hospital to 27...Volunteer Urology Team Helps Many in Madagascar
Huge thanks to the Urology team of volunteers from Ballarat, Perth & Chile – Dr Richard McMullin (Urologist), Dr Berni Troncoso (Paediatric Urologist), Dr Melvyn Kuan (Urologist), Dr Josh Telles (Anaesthetist) and Rhiannon Lang (Nurse) – who recently travelled to Toliara, Madagascar to provide medical services and training. The team completed 124 consultations and 59 surgeries, including 27 children (mainly...Sea Container of Donated Medical Equipment for Zimbabwe Hospital
Our 67th sea container is on its way to Zimbabwe for the United Bulawayo Hospitals. Huge thanks to Graeme Wilson, our volunteer logistics expert for arranging and packing the container with ADFA staff, Helen and Dawn. Over 100 items of donated medical equipment and supplies were loaded, including a c-arm (x-ray machine), operating table, hospital beds with mattresses, examination tables, lead garments, PPE, crutches,...Orthopaedics Team Provides Medical Services and Training in Madagascar
A volunteer Orthopaedic team – surgeon Dr Li-On Lam, nurse Lucy Harris, orthopaedic registrar Dr Georgina Waters, and support/logistics officer Cherrie Genat – provided medical assistance and training in Madagascar last month. On the way to Madagascar, the team had a very positive meeting with the Australian High Commissioner in Mauritius, Her Excellency Ms Kate Chamley. We thank the Embassy for supporting our programs in...
2023 Annual Report
Urology & Orthopaedics Team Volunteer in Madagascar
A second team of Ballarat-based medical volunteers travelled to Madagascar to provide much needed orthopaedic and urology services in Toliara, on the west coast. Long time ADFA volunteers, Dr Lydia Johns Putra (Urologist) and Dr Shaun English (Orthopaedic Surgeon),...
Volunteer Medical Team Visits Madagascar
Another team of medical volunteers visited Toliara, Madagascar recently for a two week assignment. Huge thanks to Dr Taro Okamoto (Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Andrea Atkinson (Obstetrics & Gynaecology Surgeon), Kelly Lee (Nurse) and Cherrie Genat (Logistics) for...
Female Orthopaedic Empowerment Program, Ethiopia
ADFA presented a two day Gender, Leadership and Resilience Seminar in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as part of its Female Orthopaedic Empowerment Program. 20 young female doctors from Addis Ababa and regional areas, gathered to share the challenges and the successes of...
Ethiopian Orthopaedic Residents Training
Dr Graham Forward joined Australian Doctors for Africa Ethiopian consultant Dr Ananya Kassahun to present the ADFA / AOA / ESOT Pre Basic Courses in Addis Ababa, September 2023. A strong local and international faculty conducted lectures and hands on workshops to 80...
Orthopaedic Training at Ethiopian Regional Hospital
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...
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...
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