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Improving facilities
Many hospital buildings and health centres in Madagascar are in a desperate state. Money is lacking for even the simplest repairs. Doctors for Madagascar supports medical facilities with the planning, financing and realisation of necessary building work.
Doctors for Madagascar helps with the building and renovation of medical facilities. The Zoara hospital in Fotadrevo is a good example: Doctors for Madagascar had been involved on the ground since the hospital’s opening in 2012, when it hospital was housed in the rooms of a former rice mill. But word got around quickly about how professionally the local doctors there were working, and with an influx of new patients, the hospital was unable to continue its growth.
After the in-depth planning and preparation of the project with our local partners, we began a comprehensive rebuilding of the hospital, developing a row of new buildings on an enclosed plot of land at the edge of the village. They include an operating building with emergency room, an inpatient ward with washrooms, and outpatient and laboratory buildings, as well as houses for the employees, a storage building with a workshop, a well and sanitary facilities.
The construction of a shelter which can offer shade to approximately 50 patients and their relatives whilst they wait costs around 2,000€.
PROJECTS
17.03.2016
Emergency fund - meeting the costs of care for the poorest patients
80% of Madagascans live in extreme poverty. As there is no universal health insurance, Doctors for Madagascar covers the medical costs for patients who otherwise could not afford medical care.
17.11.2015
Aid missions - help from international doctors
Doctors for Madagascar organises regular aid missions with volunteer doctors and medical staff from Europe. These volunteers treat patients directly and also provide training for local staff.
01.10.2015
"Skills to Save Lives" – Medical training
Southern Madagascar urgently needs qualified medical personnel. Our project "Skills to Save Lives" provides medical training for doctors, nurses and technical staff in one of the poorest areas of the country.
01.09.2015
Maternal Health – caring for expectant mothers
Pregnant women with severe labour complications often only reach a clinic after traveling for hours on an oxcart – with serious consequences for them and their child. Most have no access to pre-natal care. Doctors for Madagascar is working to improve care for pregnant women and newborns.
17.08.2015
Free meals for patients - caring for the whole person
In Madagascar, patients are generally fed and cared for by their families. So that food shortages don't get in the way of treatment, Doctors for Madagascar covers the subsistence costs of all in-patients in our partner hospitals.
17.07.2015
Improving facilities
Many hospital buildings and health centres in Madagascar are in a desperate state, with no money for even the simplest repairs. Doctors for Madagascar supports hospitals and health centres to build and renovate essential facilities.
17.06.2015
Maintaining technical equipment
Kept in good condition, hospital equipment saves lives. But extreme climates, inconsistent electricity and inadequate maintenance in Africa wear out medical equipment much faster than in the UK. We provide not only medical equipment, but also training on maintenance and care.
CLOSE UP
Summer Concert at the Berlin Philharmonic
The Junges Ensemble Berlin, one of Germany’s leading youth orchestras, bewitched its audience with Beethoven’s masterful violin concerto and Prokofiev’s fiery Fifth Symphony. What an evening at the Berlin Philharmonic!
Praxis Update - a special partnership
Since 2012, Doctors for Madagascar has been an NGO partner at Praxis Update, a continuing medical education conference for GPs.
No chance
Today a mother came into the hospital carrying a baby – one week old with ashen skin and a belly distended like a barrel.
Wood-gasifier ovens
For a long time, relatives cooked meals for patients on traditional open fires in the wasteland outside the hospital site.
A feverish cart-ride
April 2012: Sweaty and shivering with exertion, two oxen drag a heavily laden cart the last few metres to Fotadrevo hospital. The passenger, Tiana, has a 40°C fever and is nine months pregnant.
An engineer for Madagascar
Financing an aid mission yourself? Yes, it’s possible - Johannes Häußermann is the proof, with his crowdfunding drive "An Engineer for Madagascar".
For better or for worse? The changing face of Africa
Developing countries have seen dramatic improvements in many areas over the last 15 years.
How to explain Madagascar’s low HIV/AIDS rate?
Madagascar stands apart from sub-Saharan African nations with regard to HIV/AIDS rates. Why?
Welcome, my darling!
The sun burns hot on 7th December 2012. One of Médecins Sans Frontières’ white 4x4s pulls into the gate of the hospital in Fotadrevo, carrying three women from the town of Bekily, 60 km away.
Impressions from Fotadrevo
Nine hours’ worth of parched land pass by our 4x4 as we travel from Toliara to Fotadrevo. Cacti, shrubs, scant trees and now and then a village of mud huts. Sand and dust reach as far as the eye can see, in shades of red, brown and grey.
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