Welcome to Virtual Doctors
Supporting Frontline Healthcare in Rural Africa
About us
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 use mobile technology to give rural Health Workers in remote areas access to doctors and resources for education, mentoring and professional second opinion support
Our service helps to address 7 of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
What We do
We aim to help improve local primary healthcare in some of the most remote and impoverished areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
DALY rates from communicable, neonatal, maternal & nutritional diseases,2019Age-standardized DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Year) rates per 100,000 individuals from communicable diseases. DALYs areused to measure total burden of disease – both from years of life lost and years lived with a disability. One DALY equals one lostyear of healthy life
Our Partners
Corporate Partners
Our corporate partners 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 to sick people in rural Africa – 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.
United States Partners
If you are based in the USA you can donate via Every.org, a tax-exempt US 501(c)(3) charity that grants unrestricted funds to the fund for Virtual Doctors USA hosted at Edward Charles Foundation on your behalf.
If you are interested in supporting our work please contact us
