Alliance of International Doctors, Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği
Founded2011
TypeNGO
Location
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Dr. Mevlit Yurtseven
Websitewww.aidoctors.org

Alliance of International Doctors (AID, Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği in Turkish) is an organization established by a group of volunteer doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and nurses in Istanbul in 2011. AID provides medical assistance to the people in the regions affected by disasters and poverty. The president of the organization is Dr. Mevlit Yurtseven.

Activities

Volunteer AID Doctor examining a child

Emergency medical relief

AID delivers medicine and hygiene items and deploys medical teams to the regions affected by natural disasters, war and violence. AID medical teams provided primary health care to the 2015 earthquake victims in Nepal. AID worked in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan as well as in the camps for internally displaced persons in Arakan, Myanmar, in 2013. AID sent a surgical team to Gaza during the attack in 2012. AID has been conducting health screenings, hygiene kit distribution and vaccinations for the Syrians affected by the Syrian Civil War. AID provided primary health care to the Syrian refugees from Kobane following the mass influx in September 2014.[1]

Permanent and preventive health services

Queue of patients at the AID clinic in the refugee camp

AID provided primary health care to Somali refugees in Kenya's Dadaab Refugee Camp between August 2011 and July 2012.[2] AID volunteers implemented mosquito net distribution projects in Kenya and Uganda for malaria prevention, and established a mother-and-child health center in Uganda.[3] AID carried out circumcision projects in some of the Balkan countries, Tunisia, and Bangladesh for orphans and underprivileged children.

Eye examination taken before cataract operation

AID collaborates with IHH, the Islamic Development Bank, Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency, and Niger Ministry of Health for a cataract project in Niamey, Niger. An ophthalmology department has been established at Lamorde Hospital of Abdou Moumouni University for the project, which targets to perform 30,000 free-of-charge cataract surgeries in five years and to transfer skills to the local personnel. AID is responsible for the human resources and for providing and maintaining the medical equipment and consumables. AID will collaborate with other organizations working on prevention of blindness during the project. The department will be handed over to the Niger authorities in 2019.

Health Education

Practical training for disasters and emergencies

AID is providing health education services in coordination with local organizations in different regions.[4][5][6]

Psychological Rehabilitation

AID volunteer in Syria doing psychological support activities with a child

AID conducts psychological support programs to help the victims of natural disasters and wars as well as orphans and their families cope with the trauma and the loss they had experienced, and to reduce the negative impacts of these experiences on them.[7] AID is providing psychosocial support to Syrian refugee women and children in Istanbul including psychotherapy since 2014.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "AID sağlık ekibi Suruç'ta - Timeturk: Haber, Timeturk Haber, HABER, Günün haberleri, yorum, spor, ekonomi, politika, sanat, sinema". www.timeturk.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Somali'de toplu ölümler yaşanabilir!". 22 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Bweyogerere mothers get new maternity ward". 20 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Somalili doktorlara pediatri eğitimi".
  5. ↑ "AID Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği". aidoctors.org.
  6. ↑ "Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği'nin Eğitim Projesi'ne TİKA Desteği - TİKA". www.tika.gov.tr.
  7. ↑ Şafak, Yeni (28 August 2014). "Mülteci olmayan anlamaz". Yeni Şafak.
  8. ↑ "New Istanbul center treats Syrian children fleeing war". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2016-08-16.

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