Who We Are
The Virtual Doctors use a bespoke mobile app to connect isolated health centres in rural Zambia and Malawi with volunteer doctors, based predominantly in the UK.
Every single day volunteer doctors offer advice to diagnose conditions, to manage and treat patients.
This assists and empowers local health workers, helps support the reduction in mortality rates & hospital referrals, furthering the Clinical Officers medical education.
Our Vision
To improve the health of patients in rural clinics by supporting the health workers; sharing expert advice, resources and mentoring through our specially developed telemedicine software.
Our Mission
We aim to help improve local primary healthcare in some of the most remote
and impoverished areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Our 3 Key Aims:
- Help rural health workers to treat more patients in their own communities.
- Prevent unnecessary referrals to distant and hard to reach hospitals.
- Improve the knowledge & capacity of rural health workers so that next time a complex patient case presents, they know how to deal with it.
Clinician cases
Volunteer Doctors
Clinicians onboarded
Districts in Zambia
Districts in Malawi
Our service helps to address 7 of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
OUR ARCLIGHT PROJECT
Our Supporters
Corporate Supporters
Our corporate supporters are a very special group who have generously donated funds, goods, services, time or expertise to the Virtual Doctors service. Without their help we couldn’t make such a difference– thank you!
Trusts & Foundations
Our pioneering work has been generously supported by a number of trusts and foundations. To them, and to those organizations that prefer to remain anonymous, we give heartfelt thanks.
