The Flying Doctor Society is a non profit organisation. The money not used in evacuating our members is used to undertake charity evacuations and outreach services within AMREF.
Read the stories about some of the charity evacuations that have been funded by our members:-
Charity Evacuation – Wamba Mission Hospital
Charity Evacuation of Siamese Twins - August 13, 2008
In 1957, Michael Wood, one of the three founding surgeons of AMREF consulted the famous Dr Albert Schweitzer at his Leprosy Mission Hospital in Lambarene, West Africa. How, he asked can we serve the 80% of rural Africans who live beyond the reach of urban medical facilities? "Use the tools of our time," was his answer. Aeroplanes and radios were the tools of that time and became the framework of AMREF.