Global Medical Aid
| Founded | 2010 |
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| Founder | Hans-Frederik Dydensborg |
| Type | Medical Humanitarian Organisation |
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Hans-Frederik Dydensborg |
| Website | www.globalmedicalaid.com |
Global Medical Aid is a Danish humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, known for its medicinal and healthcare support to developing nations. Its headquarters are in Birkerød, Denmark.DANIDA, DAMCO and Maersk have continuously covered the freight costs of medicine and equipment sent to GMAs beneficiary countries. The founder of GMA, Hans-Frederik Dydensborg was nominated to hero of the year, 2012, in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The organization sends discarded medicine and health care equipment from the Danish health system to twelve countries which include Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Nepal, Macedonia, Senegal, Somaliland, Syria, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. GMA works in close collaboration with health ministries, hospitals, diplomats, embassies and pharmaceutical companies such as Actavis, Orifarm and Pharmanovia.
Global Medical Aid collects medicine and equipment from hospitals in Developed Nations such as Denmark and then sends them off to Third World. Equipment is often withdrawn from service due to modernization within developed nations health services. GMA encourages hospitals and pharmaceutical firms to donate their medicine instead of abolishing them. Henceforth, the equipment and medicine is still usable and very modern in the third world. In 2012, the value of the donations to the Third World stood at 76 million DKK.
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