DoctorSHARE's floating hospitals bring quality healthcare to Indonesia's remote islands, visiting 5-6 locations annually across coastal and indigenous communities. By mobilizing medical volunteers, they provide surgeries, obgyn, internal medicine, maternal and child health services, as well as community health education. Local health workers receive training and hands-on experience alongside specialists, helping to bridge access gaps, restore hope, and strengthen community health systems.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago with over 17,000 islands, struggles with isolated, communites lacking healthcare. Doctors are few, unevenly distributed - specialist services like surgery, obgyn, or internal medicine are often absent. This gap contributes to a high maternal and child mortality, among the highest in Asia - while TB & Malaria continue to burden fragile health systems. For families in remote islands, these challenges mean that even basic healtcare are out of reach.
DoctorSHARE's floating hospitals (3 Phinisi vessels and 1 barge) bring free healthcare to remote islands, serving 7,000 patients yearly on each Phinisi and 10,000 on the barge. Volunteer doctors provide lifesaving care while mentoring local health workers so skills remain in the community. We work with universities offers internship placements for future medical capacity. We collaborates with BPJS to ensure patients in remote areas can benefit from Indonesia's national health insurance system.
By deploying floating hospitals, doctorSHARE aims to reach at least 250,000 patients by 2030 with primary and secondary care. By strengthening obstetrics, maternal child health, and infectious diseases, the program seeks to contribute to national targets of reducing maternal mortality from 177/100,000 to 70/100,000, boost TB and malaria treatment success from 78% to 85%, and, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, establish a blueprint for sustainable remoteisland healthcare.
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