Massive thanks to the ProtoSpace team at the University of Technology Sydney for donating 510 face shields to our COVID-19 support program in East Africa. Led by interns Isaac Garcia and Stuart Kirkwood, a team of “COVID-19 Student Responders” designed and 3D printed...
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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...
PPE for Healthcare Workers in East Africa
Sea Container Packed Full of Medical Equipment for Ethiopia
Last Friday we packed a 40ft sea container for the Nigist Elleni Mohammed Memorial Referral Hospital in Hossana, a city 250 km south west of Addis Ababa. Massive thanks to John, Michael, Les and the team at AWH for your assistance on the day and storage support...
Supporting Female Medical Students in Somaliland
Australian Doctors for Africa has expanded its scholarship program by providing two new scholarships for female medical students in Somaliland. Hafsa and Zainab are studying medicine at the Edna Adan University Hospital in Hargeisa and have been awarded scholarships...
Thank You Emirates Airline Foundation
A huge thank you to the Emirates Airline Foundation for its generous support in 2019 for our activities in Ethiopia through the donation of 17 return flights and extra baggage allowance. This extraordinary support allowed us to increase our trips to Ethiopia for...
Volunteers Pack Two Sea Containers of Donated Medical Equipment for Madagascar
Massive thanks to dedicated volunteers - Graeme Wilson (Board Member) and Lions Club of Claremont-Nedlands members, Lex Thomson, Leo McManus, Paul Wyndham (excellent scribing again Paul!), Steve Andrews, Jim Davies, John Barnett, Andrew Porteous and Jack Slater - for...
Small Obstetrics/Gynaecology Team Makes a Big Difference
The Toowoomba-based volunteer Obstetrics/Gynaecology team of Dr Lanziz Homar (Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and team leader), Dr Garrett Benson (Anaesthetist) and Joshua Hawkins (Theatre Nurse) visited Madagascar for 10 days to provide essential gynaecology and...
Gastroenterology Team Helps Many in Madagascar
The third volunteer Gastroenterology team for the year, of Dr Digby Cullen, Dr Niroshan Muwanwella, Ms Nicolle Harrison and Ms Zara Webb-Martin, ran a surgical program and training in four cities in Madagascar over two weeks. Traveling extensively, the team worked...
Volunteer Urology Team Visits Madagascar
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...
ENT Program in Medical Forum
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...
Arthroscopy Equipment and Training for Madagascar
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...
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