1000 doctors free 3rd world from charity reliance

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 report read updates from the field

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	£126 - Trains one local health worker, provides healthcare for a population of 5,000 people
	£252 - Trains two local health workers, provides healthcare for a population of 10,000 people
	£505 - Trains four local health workers, provides healthcare for a population of 20,000 people
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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

Global Medic Force 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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £8,722
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £6,549
Total Funding Goal: £15,271

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

When local health workers lack the skills and systems to care for their own patients, the entire country suffers. 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
101 West 23rd Street
Suite 179
New York, NY 10011
United States
+1 866 232 4954
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organisation

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

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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 September 18, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

Introducing Global Medic Force's new website

By Katie Graves-Abe - Director of Operations, September 18, 2011 11:27 PM

It is with the greatest of pleasure that we are introducing our new Global Medic Force website, which may be viewed at: www.globalmedicforce.org/

The new site was commissioned with a brief to set a new and higher standard for all social ventures in healthcare globally to follow.

We are also very pleased to announce the successful launch of a public-private partnership initiative, The Journal of Medicine Long Life Clinics (Vietnam), which is being developed to allow every medical doctor working in Vietnam completely free, direct access in Vietnamese and English to $6.5 billion of the most professional medical expertise and knowledge globally, provided by 1,700 committed and highly qualified medical experts from 17 Western countries. Examples for Vietnam completed to Stage one may be viewed at: www.longlifeclinics-vn.com

Corporate membership is now open for the Vietnamese Journal of Medicine platform for those of you with contacts in companies or organisations that may wish to join as corporate co-sponsors, so that their commitments to the Vietnamese people and corporate social responsibility are properly recognised and fully appreciated. Please contact us at: info@globalmedicorce.org.

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