Newcastle Gateshead Medical Volunteers Charity ball 2014

NEWCASTLE /GATESHEAD

MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS

Charity Ball 2014

Professor Deiary F Kader

Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon

NGMV Chairman

NGMV Charity2010

• Doctors

• Nurses

• Hospital staff

NGMV Objectives

Is to work with the local charities in the

Kurdistan Region of Iraq to provide much needed

Orthopaedic Services

NEWCASTLE

IRAQ

2013

46 Operations

in a week

Dave Anderson and

Rob Halfon MPs

Supporting the

charity in Kurdistan

April 2010

July 2010Clinics

• Clinics: 400 patients seen

• Listed 30 for surgery

October 2010 Clinics:

180 patients seen

Surgery:

16 operations

DIY Drill

Breakage

MARCH 2011Clinics:

200 patients treated

Surgery:

32 Hip & Knee operations

OCTOBER 2011

Surgery: 25 Operations

Clinics: 160 seen

TEACHING

April 2012

Clinics: 130

Surgery: 42

October 2012

TeachingOctober 2012

Paediatric Course Professor Graf

Prof Graf

Infant

Hip U/S course

In Iraq

October 2012

Mrs. Talabani

The First Lady

of Iraq

Kath McCourt

Northumbria University

Sept 201312 ops

200 OPC

Sulaimani

March 2014Erbil

10 VISITS IN 4 YEARS• >70 members of our charity have visited Erbil

• Clinics: > 1500 patients

• Surgery: 250 intermediate and major operations of the hip and the knee joint.

• Regular review by us and the local doctors

• Teaching & Training: Hospital/University

SUMMARY OF VOLUNTARY WORK

• We acquire new skills. Learned how to cope

• Exposed to different culture and health system

• Opportunity to educate others

• Immense personal satisfaction

• Exciting adventure and good fun

Making Difference

Although we helped a relatively a small number of people

We made a big difference to some peoples life

Changed the medical practice in the hospitals that we worked at

LONG DAYS

SUMMARY OF VOLUNTARY WORK

• We acquire new skills.

• Exposed to different culture and health system

• Opportunity to educate others

Giving something Back

Helped relatively small number of people. We made a huge difference to peoples life

This Lady was seen in October last year. Hasn’t walked for 5 years. After the first knee replacement started

hobbling. Discharged in 3 days. Last month we did her other knee. She was very grateful that she could

walk again

Erbil CitadelOldest Continuously Inhabited Settlement in History

8000 years old

Shanidar Cave

First adult Neanderthal skeleton in Iraq

Our partners and sponsors

• Nechirvan Health aid office Erbil

• Barzani Charity Foundation Erbil

• Freight Investor Services (FIS) London

• Orthopaedic industry

(DePuy, Stryker, Smith&Nephew, Arthrex & Ethicon)

• QEH staff

• Our Patients, Friends and Families

Special Thank You

• The Lord Mayor of Gateshead

• The Kurdish Government in London

• Gary Kent & Dave Anderson (MP)

• Event Team: Paula, Laura, Louise , Courtney

• Kim Inglis

• Sally Kevan (Even manager)

• All the charity ball Sponsors

www.ngmvcharity.co.uk