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Sailing Doctors

last updated May 9, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
The Anne Spoerry Sailing Doctors
Implementation Partner(s): 
Ministry of Health of Kenya-Lamu District Hospital
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government
Funders: 
African Ceremonies, ARC International, Co-operation and Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Nairobi, Individual donors, The Moon Houses

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
<10
Number of Clients Served: 
over 11,000 patients including 1,642 vaccinations.
Summary: 

Sailing Doctors is currently the only medical organization providing regular medical care to remote areas of the Lamu District. Sailing Doctors provide a monthly clinic that travels up the Kenyan coast in a dhow providing basic medical care and ensuring that the people on the remote islands have consistent access to a doctor.

Key program components: 

The Sailing Doctors project 3 main areas of activity are providing monthly mobile clinic by motorized dhow (4-5 days at the end of each month); A nurse posted at the Mangai dispensary who carries out mobile clinics by motorbike (4 trips per month) and A Clinical Officer posted at the Shela dispensary (25 days per month).

On the 4-5 days mobile clinic, the doctors focus on conducting Immunizations: vaccines provided and administered by a nurse from the Lamu District Hospital, providing Basic medical care and Patient referrals. The also conduct HIV/AIDS detection and prevention including Data Collection and Hosting health organizations that want to learn about the villages they visit.

Program history: 

The Anne Spoerry Sailing Doctors is a ‘Community Based Organization’ in Lamu, Kenya. It was founded in July 2009 for the purpose of providing regular basic health services to the remote areas of the Lamu District. The Sailing Doctors project was founded by Bernard Spoerry, Daniela Blattler, Nikolai Barnwell, Ali Gabow and Chloe Spoerry. Its mission was greatly inspired by the work of the late Dr Anne Spoerry who worked with AMREF’s Flying Doctors services since 1964.

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