Recent Interplast Achievements
Interplast has achieved a steady growth since its inception and has an established reputation for the quality of its service and delivery as well as its ability to balance humanitarian needs against development needs. During the past 24 years Interplast has evolved from a 1 - 2 person operation to one that now employes 7 - 8 staff (3 full time) to undertake the administative workload required to support the humanitarian and development work overseas. In its first ten years of operation, Interplast undertook an average of 14 programs a year in an average of eight countries. Last financial year Interplast ran 28 programs in 15 countries, and facilitated the training of four doctors/nurses in Australia.
Some of our recent achievements include
- Development of the Laos Cleft Team after eight years of in-country programs that now perform their own treatment and training programs in provincial centres.
- A similar program is in progress in Burma (Myanmar). Interplast is assisting in the establishment of the country's first post graduate program in Plastic & Reconstructive surgery.
- Since 1990 Interplast has also played a significant role in the development of plastic and reconstructive surgery in Indonesia to the point where a fledgling plastic and reconstructive surgery program was established by surgeons sponsored by Interplast to train in Australia.
- Successful delivery of a microsurgery training program in Nepal in 2007 with Nepalese surgeons successfully performing a forearm flap procedure.
Over the 24 years Interplast has
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Trained hundreds of overseas surgeons, anesthetists and nurses, and
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Sponsored over 60 to continue their training in Australia.
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Sent nearly 600 volunteers, on
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Over 400 programs, in
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22 countries.
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Provided 28,000 consultations, and
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Performed nearly 17,000 instantly life changing operations.
Interplast is an incredible success story of humanitarian and development work that can be achieved by Australian and New Zealand volunteers.
