In the UK there is
one doctor for every three hundred and fifty people, in rural Uganda there is
one doctor for between ten thousand and twenty thousand people. Many
people have no access to any form of healthcare and over half the women deliver
their babies without any medical assistance or pain relief and without any pre-natal
care.
Rotary Doctor Bank of Great Britain and Ireland provides funding for volunteer healthcare workers to travel to developing countries to treat patients and to provide teaching to doctors, nurses and midwives.
Most of our work is in Uganda in East
Africa, but we have also supported assignments in Zambia, Kenya, Malawi,
Rwanda, Zanzibar, Ghana, Liberia, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Burma, the
Philippines, Nepal and Kiribati (formally the Ellice Islands).
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