FDSA and OWIT joined forces to set up a Movie Night to raise funds to help fight Fistula in Kenya. This is done by funding a Medical Outreach programme that identifies gaps in health care systems and develops methods and intervention to support hospitals through pre-planned visits by specialists, who provide expert advice, services and training of professional health workers. …Read More

When traveling and something goes wrong, you will always want to know you have a travel insurance cover from a company you can always trust and count on. Just like other parts of the world where travelers are faced with a couple of health issues; natural disasters, industrial action and civil unrest are all too …Read More

For six years running, AMREF in partnership with Kenyatta National Hospital(KNH) have been conducting nation-wide VVF camps lasting two weeks. The Flying Doctors Society of Africa(FDSA) is proud to be associated with the raising of funds for this notable cause. This year’s camp was held on 25th May to 5th June 2012 following media sensitization …Read More

Kenyatta National Hospital, East Africa’s largest referral hospital alone receives 400 cases annually of Obstetric fistula, which is known to be the most devastating of all pregnancy related injuries. Here we met, 32 year old Purity Kageni, one of the thousands who suffered for eleven years from Obstetric fistula. Prolonged labor is one of the …Read More

For six years running, AMREF in partnership with KNH have been conducting National-wide VVF camps lasting two weeks.  This year’s camp was held on 10th to 26th June 2011 following media sensitization campaigns in the month preceding the camp and a VVF walk held on 10th June 2011. As is the case in the previous …Read More

Owing to a high prevalence of obstetric fistula in the region, Garissa Provincial Referral Hospital is among the oldest AMREF Obstetric Fistula (OF) partnering site. The region is also among the safe motherhood project site supported by DANIDA for the last three years. The gynaecologist in this site (Dr Elly Odongo) has been doing on-the-job-training …Read More