Floating Doctors meets immediate medical needs and implement sustainable approaches to living healthier in underserved coastal areas around the world. The mission is "to reduce the present and future burden of disease in the developing world and to promote improvements in health care delivery worldwide."
The organization is a nonprofit with goals that include:
- Providing free acute and preventative health care services and delivering donated medical supplies to isolated areas.
- Reducing child and maternal mortality through food safety/prenatal education, nutritional counseling and clean water solutions.
- Studying and documenting local systems of health care delivery and identifying what progress have been made, what challenges remain, and what solutions exist to improve health care delivery worldwide.
- Using the latest communications technologies to bring specialist medical knowledge to the developing world, and to share our experiences with the global community and promote cooperation in resolving world health care issues.
Floating Doctors stay in operation through donations. A $5 donation provides 30 children with a month supply of multivitamins. One hundred dollars will microfinance a surgery. The more you give, the more the medical team can accomplish.
Founder Dr. Benjamin LaBrot is featured as a 2012 CNN Hero.
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