Welcome to Medics Beyond Borders
Medics Beyond Borders has grown from an award-winning platform that delivers primary and emergency health care solutions in remote, austere and resource-poor environments. We fund our humanitarian impact through merchandise sales and private medical contracts in international locations. This means we will never ask for donations, only your support!
Professional Health Care
We provide professional health and medical solutions for the humanitarian sector, exploratory expeditions, film productions, government, and non-government organisations.
Health Care Development
We use our decades of experience and knowledge in working in the expeditionary and humanitarian health care space to empower local communities in the development of primary health care projects.
Community Ethos
We believe that as a health care platform, we have a moral obligation to support the accessibility of health care and health education through shared learning. In short, health care should be accessible to all people.
Our Story
The MBB story started in late 2015, when a small group of paramedics, nurses and doctors came together to support several remote communities access basic primary health care. The first team deployed in 2015 travelling into a remote Himalayan community where the first health post was established in a borrowed ‘UN’ tent. This health post is now part of a network of four remote clinical posts. The platform soon expanded to provide remote primary health care solutions, health education, and health infrastructure projects in remote and extreme environments. Following five years of sustained service in five countries, the global shutdowns in 2020 caused a dramatic evacuation of all overseas personnel and caused the platforms' income streams to dry up. Rising from the proverbial remnants in 2021, Medics Beyond Borders was created to continue that legacy to ensure that health care access and health education remain available to everyone.
Providing primary health care in remote communities was the basis for Medics Beyond Borders. Our teams deploy internationally in collaboration with relevant health authorities or through ministerial approval.
Projects include:
- Emergency / Disaster Response
- EMS Development
- HEMS Capability Development
- Hospital ED Development
- First Responder Training
- Road Crash Rescue Training
- Water Rescue / Mountain Rescue Training
- Equipment Acquisition
- Training and Education Development
- Primary Health Care Provision
Medics Beyond Borders maintains a deployment roster of specialist clinicians for a variety of opportunities, some funded, some self-funded, in the name of health care access and health education.
Deployments and Projects
MBB promotes a shared experience between local communities and humanitarian teams. We encourage positive change through educational opportunities, infrastructure projects and health care initiatives.
Vanuatu
Ambulance Development
2015-2020
Nepal
Primary Health Care
2015-2020
Timor Leste
Community Health Training
2017-2020
Samoa
EMS Development
2018-2020
Fiji
HEMS Development
2018-2019
PNG
Ambulance development project currently being negotiaated
Somalia
Ambulance project under assessment and consideration
Nigeria
EMS project under assessment and consideration
Community Support
Community Support
Donated medical equipment
Safe Water
Funding water projects
Health Education
Facilitate health education
Rosters and Engagement
MBB maintains both a deployment roster and student engagement projects to ensure a sustainable approach to our educational opportunities, infrastructure projects and health care initiatives exists. Contact us now to discuss your involvement.
Humanitarian Deployment Roster
MBB maintains a deployment roster of experts for assignments that support health care access in collaboration with national governments and local and international NGOs. These are funded and self-funded deployments.
University and Student Engagement
These projects encourage a shared collaborative experience between health professionals, student groups and community members to build capacity through frontline health initiatives and educational clinics
Shop with a difference
Not only does our merchandise look awesome, it provides tangible assistance to our project partners in health. Sales of our merchandise provide funds to support medical equipment acquisition, medicine, and clean water. When nearly 80% of illness in low GDP countries is related to poor water quality and inadequate sanitation conditions, it is a vital first step in improving community health.
Wear it for Water!
Every shirt purchased before the 30th June 2022 will provide one year of clean drinking water to a person in Nepal or Uganda. We reckon that is a pretty good reason to show your support and represent MBB.
Governance
The role of the Clinical Advisory Committee is to provide guidance and steer the clinical activities of Medics Beyond Borders. In doing so, the Committee works to ensure that Medics Beyond Borders act in accordance with the local and international law, conventions, regulations and protocols. It also provides guidance and develops and maintains ethical standards based on a code of conduct, a scope of practice, medical definitions, and clinical guidelines.
A key Committee responsibility is to ensure good governance is in place. The Committee will monitor and review its own performance and strive to maintain a skilled and diverse membership. It also maintains a recognition process that acknowledges the efforts of our volunteers, members and staff.Sunny RP
Project Lead
Dr Belinda
Remote Obstetrics
Dr Dinesh
Emergency Medicine
Dr Kate
Clinical Psychology
Capt Sean
Clinical Human Factors
Dr Brent
Extreme Environment Medicine
Scott FCCP
Aeromedical Retrieval
Lee RN RP
Remote Nursing / Paramedicine
Strategic Plan
2021-2022
Scope of Practice
2021-2022
Policies and Procedures
2021-2022
Reporting
2021-2022
Our Teams' Humanitarian Health Care Impact
12000+
clinical presentations
30+
Teams deployed
200+
Clinicians deployed
$200 000+
Funding raised78
Prescribed glasses
167
Dental extractions
2
Community shelters built
1
Community toilet blocks
18
Medical kits donated
4
Oxygen kits donated
4
Computers for schools
53
people provided 12 months of clean water
Safety and Security
Collaborating with international leaders in health
WHO Academy - COVID - 19
Our team members are certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for COVID-19 Virus, Clinical Management of Patients with COVID-19, and the WHO COVID-19 Mass Gatherings Risk Assessment Training.
Sphere Handbook - Humanitarian Health
With two decades of experience using the standards in front-line operations, policy development and advocacy to uphold quality and accountability, the Sphere Handbook has guided our humanitarian operations (current member application pending).
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