the forgotten people

Our team of volunteers is attending to
“the forgotten people”
the sick, aged, frail, young, dying, handicapped and chronically ill
who live in areas where basic services are not available
Primum Non Nocere
DOCTORS ACROSS BORDERS
NPO
P.O. Box 46816 • Glosderry • 7700
Colleen O’Carroll
• Cell: +27 82 774 6274 Fax
•Fax: +27 86 547 1910
colleen@doctorsacrossborders.mu
Chief Executive Officer
NPC • 2014/059209/08
NPO • 136-196
PBO • 930044932
BBEEE Reg • EME Level 4
MISSION
Doctors Across Borders, Going Beyond Borders of
Convention…
To serve health care needs across all communities
through
service,
education and
community
partnerships. Our ultimate goal is to provide a model of
disease prevention and a holistically healthy living
guide, combining compassion for all individuals
travelling the road from chronic disease to health.
•
"It's not the destination, it's the journey," a journey
often littered with misdiagnoses, frustration and
despair. Health is normal to the body supplied by quality
nutrients. Most health situations result from nutritional
deficiencies, toxicity overload, pathogenic infiltration,
digestive and biotic imbalances, deficient immune
function, poor quality water, to name a few causes. Our
focus is to restore natural and optimal physiological
functions offering “holistic” strategies for sustainable
healing.
VISION
Doctors Across Borders acknowledged an emerging
awareness and recognised the need for an integrated
healthcare system that utilises the best of conventional
care along with a holistic, integrated alternative
medicine. DAB, an interdisciplinary organisation of
natural medicine professionals drawing from various
systems of healing from across the globe, including
natural medicine, herbalism, traditional and allopathic
practices thus widening our scope of treatment.
Doctors Across Borders believe in wellness, longevity,
and the body’s ability to heal itself when provided the
nutrients it may presently be deficient in. The body is
made divinely and has inherent, marvelous systems of
support that work synergistically to boost ones immune
function and heal tissue. We do not treat symptoms,
rather, we aim to establish the cause as to why the
imbalance / disease manifested. Our treatments are
patient specific as opposed to disease specific as we
address improper lifestyle habits that lead to imbalance.
The unhealthy habits all need addressing for
change to begin.
A LITTLE HISTORY
Doctors Across Borders was founded in 1992 by Dr. Michael McDonald
and later brought into existence by T/Dr. Colleen O’Carroll who worked
closely with Dr. McDonald on various herbal formulations that form the
foundation of DAB’s treatment protocols.
Doctors Across Borders started as an ocean venture with a fully
equipped medical boat sailing from Aiden to the shores of the Comoros,
Egypt, England, Greece, India, Mafia, Mauritius, Mayotte, Pemba, Red
Sea, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Yemen and Zanzibar to
name a few.
In 1998 the team returned to Southern Africa and started serving
communities in Namibia and later various other regions in South Africa.
The team dynamics changed yet again in 2009 when Dr. Jaqueline
Harmsen joined the team, after having spent some time in Mexico
researching Cancer and other dreaded diseases.
A LITTLE HISTORY (Cont.)
Of the 52.2 million people in South Africa, 84%
currently experience chronically poor healthcare, due
to their financial circumstance, of which 19 million
reside in rural areas. In the cities 25 million people are
estimated to have good healthcare and approximately
8.2 million are not receiving adequate healthcare at
all. From these estimated figures, one can see that
South Africa is currently experiencing a health care
crisis.
With this in mind the Doctors Across Borders team
continues to expand with professionals offering
general medical care, surgery, dentistry, herbalism,
traditional African and Chinese medicine, psychology
and specialty treatments of Cancer and other
dreaded diseases. We have recently added a division
of Veterinary Medicine as well as Emergency and
Extreme Rescue specialists to our team.
SERVICES AND PROJECTS
The Doctors Across Borders team provides medical services in
various underprivileged and impoverished communities within
South Africa where all too often government facilities are not
accessible or non-existent. We have begun with other cultural
communities such as Indians, Rastafarians and Muslims.
•
While government clinics offer basic services many of these
communities have members whom require specialised medical
care due to the nature of their illnesses. The Doctors Across
Borders team offers diversity due to the variety of specialists
attending the community “bush” clinics, covering basic health
care to specialised treatments in the cases of chronic and
dreaded diseases
•
All patients receive a personal consultation and a variety of
medicines as prescribed by the doctors on duty
SERVICES AND PROJECTS (Cont.)
One of the key differentiators is the team’s intimate knowledge of Cancer and
dreaded diseases allowing the doctors to offer specialised treatment programs
where individuals are treated by means of a “healing journey”, a journey unlike the
boundaries of convention where individuals often become generic patients. Each
patient is nurtured through an individually tailored and adaptive health and wellness
program provided to them in the “bush” as travel to city clinics are not possible.
•
The DAB Doctors provides a variety of additional services including the intervention
of dreaded disease outbreaks in a time of crisis or disaster with the inclusion but not
limitation of the successful treatment of Cholera, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, and have been providing this service for many years, unaided and unfunded
•
Our team of professionals works very closely with Governments and other global
organisations with regards to the setup and integration of alternative practices by
offering our very own medicine, healing protocols and training at designated
institutes, this includes the expansion of Malaria and TB clinics into Africa and other
countries such as DRC, Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Mozambique.h as
SERVICES AND PROJECTS (Cont.)
The DAB team offers a medical service to corporate
organisations facing ongoing expenses and challenges
where staff members fall victim to a variety of dreaded
diseases as a result of occupation hazard or
environmental exposure. We believe we can assist these
organisations by treating and nurturing these individuals
back to good health allowing them to continue their
employment obligations and thus avoiding all too often
situation of temporary disability or medical boarding
•
Team members are passionate about inspiring and
empowering individuals through education by means of
tailored “conscious and lifestyle” talks and workshops
where a variety of topics are discussed at these events
•
Our Emergency Rescue and Extreme Rescue Units service
the Tsitsikamma and Cape Town districts offering
emergency services in the field as well as at corporate,
social, sporting and school events
COMMUNITIES WE SERVE
The Doctors Across Borders team currently
serves several community “bush” clinics in
Kwazulu Natal and the Eastern Cape on a
monthly basis. The clinics are held in remote
areas where medical facilities are scarce or nonexistent. These clinics include : Hillcrest • Hopewell
• Inhlazuka • Isipingo • Maromini • Mkomaas •
Mid Illovo • Phuthaditjhaba
• Richmond •
Stanger
• Tsitsikamma •
Umbumbulu • Nelspruit
300 to 500 patients are seen during the monthly
clinic tours, with a steady incline in numbers as
more people are made aware of the clinics and as
a result of new clinics being opened.
CHALLENGES IN THE FIELD
The Doctors are constantly faced with new
challenges when serving at the community “bush”
clinics where allopathic medicines and treatment
protocols are not available and the DAB team are
forced as a result to provide a sustainable
treatment program that is not only always
available, but affordable for the patients.
The lack of medical supplies and medicines forces
our teams to think out of the box and substitute
these treatment programs with medicine that is
readily available to their patients. In many cases
the doctors will prescribe herbal and natural
medicine and is truly amazing to see the results.
FINANCIAL CHALLENGES
Doctors Across Borders has been funded personally by members of the team
with a dream and passion to make a difference.
Unfortunately with the demand and need to serve larger communities the
team cannot sustain the financial resources required to serve these
communities nor grow the clinics. Funding is required to help ensure
operational independence and flexibility.
With 500+ patients seen each month during community “bush” clinic tours a
total spend of R 397 802 per month on average facilitates the medicines
dispensed, vehicle costs (as per AA calculations), toll fees and
accommodation. This figure continues to grow with the expansion of these
clinics and the teams required to serve them.
Ambulances & mobile clinics, medical & dentistry equipment, medicine, First
Aid equipment, 4x4 vehicles & trailers, fuel & maintenance, tyres, insurance,
toll fees, flights, accommodation, legal fees & administration, ICT and
marketing are but a few things that make our world go round, and without
funding for these facilities we cannot pursue this outrageous dream…
FINANCES
Doctors Across Borders is a non-profit organisation
and more than 80 per cent of our resources are
allocated to our humanitarian activities. The
remaining 20 per cent is spent on management and
administration, and reinvested in fundraising.
The use of Doctors Across Borders funds is tightly
controlled and the audited financial report defines
the different categories of income and expenditure
and shows how funds are raised and spent.
Banking Details
Doctors Across Borders
Standard Bank
Account 332167402
Branch 012342, Alberton
Auditor Details
CAP Chartered Accountants
PO Box 5526, Tyger Valley, 7536
Tel 0860 777 227
Fax +2721 914 7789
FUTURE PROJECTS I
Doctors Across Borders would like to go well
beyond the borders of medicine and medical
care. Many of the illnesses we treat are a direct
result of poor nutrition and insufficient fluid
intake.
Sustainable farming projects managed by the
communities we serve will ensure that basic
nutritional requirements are met by providing the
community with vegetables and fruits known to
facilitate healthy living.
A fully accessible group of Integrated Medical
Clinics is planned for the near future, once funds
are sufficient.
FUTURE PROJECTS II
“Our children are the rock on which our future is built, our greatest
asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of
our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people”.
Doctors Across Borders would like to embark on educational programs
at the many schools within the communities we serve teaching our new
generation about healthy living, disease prevention, life skills and much
more…
Members of the community will be trained and skilled to ensure they
can take over these programs thus creating employment.
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in
which it treats its children”.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
The passion and dedication of the Doctors Across
Borders team has seen more than 1 million
patients treated thus far.
Our clinics have doubled since 2012 and continue
to grow with new clinics added monthly.
Many patients have fully recovered from their
illnesses with the successful treatment of Cancer,
Hepatitis, Malaria, and Tuberculosis to name a few.
AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS
Damaansa Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Damaansa Holdings is an independent partnership
working to research and develop new and
improved treatments for many of the known
dreaded diseases and is the provider of FaithTM
Drops endorsed by Doctors Across Borders and
prescribed and issued to our patients.
Damaansa Holdings is also the manager of 16
growing farms employing 5000 people supplying a
variety of herbs for many of the other natural
medicines endorsed by Doctors Across Borders.
DIRECTORS DETAILS
Name
Jaqueline Harmsen
Colleen O’Carroll
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Executive
Officer
Race
White
White
White
Gender
Female
Female
Male
7209160096087
5806030041086
6209135226083
PHC
D.Emed; EPP; EMT
MB ChB, PhD, D.Emed
+2782 774 6274
+2782 339 9799
Position
Id Number
Qualifications
Contact
Number
MB ChB, BA
Languages, IndoGermanistic
(comparative
language science),
PhD
D.Emed
+2772 888 1000
Michael H. McDonald
Lead Physician
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