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.
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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
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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
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
Vietnam
and can also be found under
Health.
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
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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