2011 marked the 40th year since the inception of the Society. Whilst we celebrated our achievement of having raised Kshs. 1 billion for AMREF’s Outreach Programme, we used the time to reflect on the work we have done serving communities in East Africa. As a Council, we agreed that moving forward we will continue to ...Read More Read More »

What work have you done for AMREF’s Outreach Programme? I joined AMREF as the Outreach Manager for the Programme in November 2003. During my tenure, I have overseen the expansion of outreach in terms of number of hospitals and number of patients benefiting. Due to funding from FDSA, outreach has tripled in their projects (FDSA ...Read More Read More »

Our core mandate, as the Flying Doctors Society of Africa is to fundraise for AMREF Outreach programme and charity evacuations. We carry out Charity evacuations in special circumstances where a victim is in a life threatening situation and requires urgent and specialized medical attention. The charity evacuations are mainly carried out in areas where medical ...Read More Read More »

AMREF Outreach Specialist Programme held a Urology Medical Camp at the Turiani Hospital in Tanzania in February 2012. Dr. Frank Bright, one of the doctors who assist in AMREF’s specialist outreach programme. His specialty is urology. The inhabitants of Turiani refer to him as ‘bingwa’, a name he was given after performing surgeries in Turiani ...Read More Read More »

At FDSA, we understand that the most important thing to you is your life and that of your loved ones, and so we are committed to working with you to ensure your life and that of your loved ones is in safe hands. We never put profit over integrity and we are proud to partner ...Read More 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 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 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 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 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 Read More »