About Doctors Worldwide Booklet

Save a Life. Change a Life.

“Our mission is to serve communities in need so that they can build healthier and happier futures�

Doctors Worldwide was established in 2001 as a response to the observed challenges faced by charities in delivering quality medical aid programmes during the Balkan conflicts in Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo. As a result, a group of international health professionals collaborated to establish Doctors Worldwide with a simple aim; to work with local communities to help develop, build and sustain essential medical services for a healthier and happier future.

We are Doctors Worldwide Good health enables people and communities to define their own future. Yet millions across the globe lack access to quality healthcare. We support and collaborate with local communities to build and sustain quality healthcare services for a healthier and happier future for themselves and their loved ones.

Our work focuses on 3 areas:

Health Access Health Improvement

Health Emergency

Access to quality healthcare is not a privilege, it is a human right.

Malawi 2018

In Somba’s only dedicated maternity clinic, we provided midwives and nurses where there had previously been none. As a result, the clinic now safely delivers 25 new babies each month as well as performing over 150 antenatal and postnatal checks.

Our Values

INTEGRITY

Our shared values and principles are at the heart of everything we do ensuring every action, every interaction, and every penny is uncompromisingly consistent with our ethical code.

COLLABORATION

Working with others to improve the lives of those who we serve, we utilise the invaluable skills, sensitivities, and local knowledge of our partners.

CLINICAL EXCELLENCE

Experts in delivering and managing quality healthcare, we find solutions in resource challenged settings to deliver low cost, high impact solutions with lasting effects.

Rwanda 2019 Our project in Rwanda has seen us train 35 community-based healthcare volunteers in dignified end of life care, as well as providing food support, shelter, education and transport facilities for families with terminally ill members, and covering medical insurance for 174 patients.

Health Access We provide access to quality healthcare for vulnerable communities. Whether we are developing new services, building new infrastructure, or covering the cost of healthcare for the poor. We ensure that our belief in access to quality healthcare is enshrined in all that we do.

FACT

3.5 Billion people have no access to life-saving, essential healthcare services

Mental Health

Optometry

Dental Healthcare

Maternal Healthcare

Clinics

Medical

Sexual Health

Primary

Healthcare

Health

Child

Debt relief

Kenya 2014

Our work in Kenya saw the renovation and staffing of a previously abandoned clinic in a fishing village on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Soon, the centre had become a 24 hour clinic, which was recognised by the local Department of Health as the best performing clinic in the area. It also acted as a hub for 30 community health workers who undertook public health education projects in local rural communities.

Health Improvement Much of the world’s disease burden and loss of life would be prevented by strengthening healthcare systems. Stronger health systems can help achieve better health. From better trained staff, to higher quality services designed for the communities they serve.

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Data Administration

Staff

Leadership

Governance

Training

Logistics

FACT

Malawi has only 19 physicians per 1 million people, compared to the UK which has 2,810 per 1 million

Bangladesh 2019 In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh,

we trained nearly half of the local Bangladeshi doctors working in the Rohingya refugee camps through our 7 humanitarian health modules, which have been developed by over 50 Doctors Worldwide physicians and healthcare practitioners from across the world. By the end of the project, we had trained 99 doctors who represented 36 local and international charities, and attained funding and partnership status with the UN-IOM.

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60% of preventable maternal deaths take place in settings of conflict, displacement and natural disasters

Hygiene Packs

FACT

Local communities and services make up to 90% of the first responders during a humanitarian emergency, providing vital medical care and relief. We support and strengthen the local community response to avoid creating duplicate systems to allow the best and most effective use of resources.

Clean Water

Pakistan 2005 We responded to the Kashmir Earthquake by deploying 50 medical volunteers and one tonne of medical supplies, establishing tent clinics and ambulance services for the local communities.

Since then we have raised funds to build a permanent health structure in Ata Shisha serving 20,000 patients a year, including an out-patient maternal health service unit which saw its first baby born in 2017.

Timeline Doctors Worldwide is nominated for the Seoul Peace Prize for our groundbreaking work in Guatemala

Doctors Worldwide is registered as a charity in the UK and responded to our first humanitarian emergency in the Gujarat earthquake

2002

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2001 Rebuilding the Kono district hospital becomes our first project in Africa Doctors Worldwide Turkey is founded

We began our first surgical health project repairing obstetric fistula in Niger

Our first eye health project begins in Niger with our cataract programme Our first maternal health programme begins in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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In Palestine, Doctors Worldwide begins its trauma counselling workshop, our first mental health programme

2012

The Doctors Worldwide Humanitarian Medical Aid course celebrates its 10th year anniversary

2014

2016

Our first rehabilitation programme for disabled children begins in Kenya Our work gained us special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council

2018 Our Postgraduate Fellowship begins in Bangladesh followed by a partnership with the UN-IOM Doctors worldwide USA is established

Get Involved If you want to help change lives across the world, there are a number of ways you can get involved with Doctors Worldwide.

Food Packs

Ambulances

Volunteering for Everyone

Medical Debt relief

ics

Medicine

Palliative Care

volunteer

Medical equipment

fundraising

Opportunities for anyone who wants to be a part of something life-changing.

Communities

Sponsorship Fundraising Advocacy Learning Experience Internships Speaking Food Packs

Child Healthcare

Medicine

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Ambulances

Volunteering for Health Professionals Medical Debt relief

Palliative Care

Medical equipment

volunteer

fundraising

For doctors, nurses or anyone with a healthcare background who wants to save lives with their expertise.

Development Global Presentations

Research Overseas HealthTeaching Advise Deployment Expertise Healthcare volunteers

“I really enjoyed volunteering with Doctors

Worldwide in Bangladesh. It was a privilege to interact with young Bangladeshi Doctors who currently have challenging clinical jobs in health posts in the Rohingya camps.

Hopefully, the PGF knowledge-sharing and shadowing sessions will help to empower them, now and in the future.�

- Dr. Una (Obstetrics & Gynaecology Consultant), who volunteered to teach our Post-Graduate Fellowship Programme in Bangladesh.

Save a Life. Change a Life.

Your support and generosity is what allows us to carry out our life-saving work across the globe. We take every donation entrusted to us as a responsibility to strive for a world where access to quality healthcare is available to everyone, in every country. Together, we were able to change the lives of over three million people by 2019, and this number grows with every passing day.

Thank you.

Donate www.doctorsworldwide.org/donate your donation goes 100% oftowards project costs

32 year old Rehena is from the rural area of Qambar Shadadkot in Pakistan, a place where births occur on straw floors and are fraught with danger. The Doctors Worldwide Junejo Maternal centre provided her with a vital lifeline, and she spoke about our work:

“It is unbelievable how God led us to

this place, where the lives of poor people and their children are saved. We are so thankful to Doctors Worldwide for this; for talking to our community, and for giving us healthcare without any charges.�

Rehena safely gave birth to her second child in 2017.

Save a Life. Change a Life.

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