1000 doctors free 3rd world from charity reliance

Doctors training saves lifes

Summary

Our mission is to give health workers in emerging nations the necessary medical skills and clinic operations to treat their own people from their own resources. progress reportread updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Many developing countries are stuck in a cycle of perpetual dependence on Western charity because local health workers lack the clinical skills and operational systems needed to care for their own patients. Global Medic Force addresses this by sending expert medical professionals to transfer their medical skills to colleagues in developing countries, thereby optimizing clinic operations. As a result, hundreds of thousands of patients receive quality care when none existed before.

Activities

GlobalMedicForce recruits and prepares Western physicians and nurses for rapid skill transfer. They are stationed on a pro bono basis in clinics in developing countries for 6-12week periods. The local government and ICEHA jointly provide quality care

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $7,324
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $22,675
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Starting AIDS patients on medication will enable them to continue to contribute to their families and their communities. By creating local medical expertise, a healthcare system that will benefit patients across diseases is built from within.

Project Message

I cannot tell you how many Vietnamese lives your volunteers have saved. We are so grateful for the clinical mentors you have sent to Vietnam.
- Peter Vu Ngoc Son, MD, MPHM, Program Officer, Care and Treatment, FHI, Vietnam

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Katie Graves-Abe
Director of Operations
PO Box 1139
Princeton, NJ 08542
United States
+1 212 243 7234
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

Global Medic Force
101 West 23rd Street Suite 179
New York, NY 10011
United States
1 847 232 9885
http://www.globalmedicforce.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in VietnamVietnam and can also be found under HealthHealth.

For more information about Vietnam, read the Human Development Report on Vietnam or the Wikipedia entry for Vietnam.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 17, 2005

Latest Update from the Field

New international recruiting drive for Vietnam

By Katie Graves-Abe - Director of Operations, October 06, 2009 11:46 AM

Global Medic Force, the global leader in clinical skills rapid transfer to emerging nations, is gearing up for a major international recruitment drive for healthcare workers to deploy nationally throughout Vietnam. With over 1,000 volunteer healthcare workers from 15 Western nations, Global Medic Force has been operational in Vietnam for almost 10 years. Additionally Global Medic Force has unparallel credibility in terms of the real tangible results of its primary healthcare clinical mentoring programs in Vietnam, with the Founder and Chair of Global Medic Force, Dr Marie Charles receiving the National Medial of Honor from the President of Vietnam at the opening of the National Assembly in Hanoi in 2007, in recognition of the number of lives that Global Medic Force has saved in the country. Global Medic Force has implemented national healthcare programs in Vietnam on behalf of organizations such as The Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, HEDO (Vietnam), and Harvard University. USAID audits of Global Medic Force clinic sites in Vietnam have declared them to be “National Centers of Excellence”. Indeed in a typical instance, patient numbers may go from zero, as in the case of one government clinic in Bin Than District in Ho Chi Minh City, to 1,600 patients, after Global Medic Force clinical mentors deployed to the site and mentored it for 8 months.

Your donations will help ensure that this new recruitment drive is successful in deploying healthcare workers throughout Vietnam.

Electronic copies of Reports from the Field can be viewed at http://www.pagegangster.com/p/gwvXO.

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