Bush Dentistry

In most of the huts across South Africa – they make a fire in the middle of the room for heating and cooking purposes. Often, however, the smoke and carbon dioxide overwhelms the person making the fire and they pass out. This is what happened to this gentleman when

THE DOCTORS FOR HEALTH TEAM works regularly with albinos who have no access to healthcare due to the distance they live from the nearest clinic. Albinos are usually shunned or mocked in rural communities and as a result the majority of the albinos are reclusive. We regularly hike quite

We were flagged down by this woman’s family. She was pushed from her residence… a few km away… down a steep incline all the way to the stream in a wheel barrow… where the land is cut off from the dirt road…. There they sat waiting in the baking

COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD Days, weeks and months go past for some of the DFH Team where their only companion is the one that man has had since the beginning of time. When the journey becomes too hard and long, the human companion carries them…. When the human is

In the far out-lying rural areas there are hardly, if ever any dentists… THE DFH TEAM is called upon regularly to do teeth extractions. Serious extractions are usually sent to the nearest hospital but it is not common to see one of our Doctors pulling teeth whilst the patient

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer In the rural areas the DOCTORS FOR HEALTH TEAM cares for all living beings… Two of the little pups