Floating Doctors

About us

The Floating Doctors, founded in 2009, is a 501-C3, non-profit organization delivering health care to the remote coastal communities of Central America.
Over 80% of the world’s population lives within 5 miles of a coast, but far too many communities still live in remote poverty without access to basic health care. Poorly charted waters and rugged terrain, political factors, social disenfranchisement, poor health knowledge, poverty and lack of infrastructure separate these communities
from care.
The Floating Doctors medical team was formed to answer these challenges to health. We deploy medical teams by boat, packhorse or on foot to remote underserved areas, where we conduct ongoing health services and community development
projects.

The Floating Doctors Mission is to reduce the present and future burden of disease in the developing world, and to promote improvements in health care delivery worldwide.
Our goals include:
• Providing free acute and preventative health care services
• Facilitating community development & capacity initiatives
• Reducing child and maternal mortality
• Gathering clinical data for program and health landscape surveillance
• Improving access to specialist medical care in developing regions
• Promoting improvements in health care practice worldwide

Programs
• Immersion Program: The Floating Doctors Immersion Program is the perfect trip for small groups who are interested in experiencing a uniquely different culture, learning about the remote healthcare setting, and challenging themselves in ways that will transform them for life. Our program is structured around service and education, with a focus on global health and cultural competency.
• Mobile Clinics
• Dental
• Casa de Asilo: The Asilo is a government nursing home in Bocas del Toro and was one of the facilities that Floating Doctors had first been invited to Panama to assist.
• Advanced Follow Up & Emergency Response: When our patients need more than we can provide in the field, we go the extra mile for them, We regularly coordinate transport and accompany patients to existing health services, connect them with partner organizations, microfinance the costs of surgeries, procedures or examinations and provide aftercare and follow-up for patients after treatment.
• Community Development
• Education & Training
• Data & Research
• Remote Clinical Outposts: we have constructed Remote Medical Outposts where we ultimately will to send a small medical team to live and attend patients each week, rather than the entire large team only deploying there every couple of months.
• Veterinary Program

Genie Dunai is the Director of Volunteer Resources of the Floating Doctors.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.