Author: Dr John Batten, Chair, Foundation for Surgery 

The Foundation for Surgery is striving for a world where children, families and communities can access quality surgical care when they need it most. While the Foundation for Surgery and RACS Global Health have made great strides in providing essential surgical care to those in need in the Indo-Pacific Region, more is always needed. To enable RACS Global Health and its visiting medical teams to provide these critical surgical procedures, please help us raise the funds we so urgently need.

RACS Global Health volunteer surgical teams have been providing specialist surgical support in the Indo-Pacific for more than 20 years. The costs of these visits have increased exponentially over the last couple of years and the medical equipment in the Global Health suite are ageing and needs replacing or maintenance. The funds being sought from the Foundation for Surgery this spring will contribute to the sustainability of our capacity to provide safe and affordable specialist surgical care to patients in the Indo-Pacific region.

We request your support to provide these essential services. Please consider making a donation to the Foundation for Surgery this spring. All donations of more than $2 in Australia and $5 in Aotearoa New Zealand are tax deductible.

Please help us reach our goal of $350,000 this spring:
•    $150,000 for much needed upgraded medical equipment to enable RACS Global Health and our surgical teams to continue providing the best possible surgical care to the children and families in our region. We are committed to providing our surgical teams with the equipment they need.
•    $65,000 to send the next paediatric surgical team to Samoa where children—new-borns and two-days-old—need urgent surgical care.
•    $50,000 helps boost the financial sustainability of RACS Global Health so that our talented team can maintain the quality, effectiveness and sustainability of our program and ensure it responds to the clinical needs of the region.
•    $30,000 supports four medical educators to travel to the region to train Pacific clinicians to increase confidence, knowledge and skills.
•    $20,000 ensures that our clinical training programs can provide current versions of training manuals and replacement of training materials required for training simulation.
•    $25,000 enables two Indo-Pacific surgeons to undertake training such as CCrISP or EMST with RACS in Australia. This enables them to return home and boost the number of local faculty able to train locally.
•    $10,000 supports two regional surgical registrars to return to Fiji to sit their final exams.

Please DONATE NOW

Donate by 31 October 2024 to be in the running for a mystery prize courtesy of Corporate Traveller.

Alternatively, you may have some surgical equipment that you no longer need or use. If you wish to donate these pieces to the Global Health program, please contact the Global Health team at [email protected]