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. Thanks to your generous donations we have been able to undertake many initiatives. However, funds are still needed to enable more patients to receive critical surgical procedures particularly, in the Indo-Pacific region. At the request of Indo-Pacific Ministries of Health, RACS Global Health will deploy 26 surgical teams across 11 countries in 2025—13 of these visits are ENT focused.

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 RACS Global Health only have two functioning surgical equipment kits. With many visits planned for 2025, a third kit is desperately needed to deploy into rotation.

The funds being sought from the Foundation for Surgery End of the Year campaign 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 enable Global Health to undertake these much-needed surgical missions. Please consider making a donation to the Foundation for Surgery. All donations of more than $2 in Australia and $5 in Aotearoa New Zealand are tax deductible.

Please help us reach our goal of $200,000 this holiday season:
-    $100,000 will enable us to purchase a third medical equipment kit.
-    $65,000 is needed to send one surgical team to an Indo-Pacific nation where children, some just new-borns and 2 days old, need urgent surgical care.
-    $30,000 will support four medical educators to travel to the region to train Pacific clinicians to increase confidence, knowledge and skills.
-    $20,000 will provide funds to ensure that our clinical training programs can provide current versions of training manuals and replacement of training materials required for training simulation.

Please DONATE NOW

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 Acting General Manager at [email protected]