Idea about establishing an AMDA chapter in our country was from the fact that four medical doctors from Banja Luka-Republic of Srpska was AMDA's guests in Japan, on their education in different specialties in 1996. They spent about two month on the different clinics all over Japan. On their arrival back home they initialize idea about AMDA chapter in Banja Luka, which is realize nowadays. The main goals of our work is improving the health system and quality of medical service in our country as well as better education of medical staff in different specialties and introduction of modern medical procedures and techniques that are not available in our country after the war in our county. All kind of help as financial, medical equipment, literature (medical journal, books, CD) are welcome as well as fellowships in different specialties.
AMDA - International is a humanitarian, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian and non-governmental organization. It was founded in 1984. Its mission is to promote the health and well-being all around the world.
AMDA - International assists local non-governmental organizations to sustainable development projects, promote emergency preparedness and provide appropriate emergency relief assistance.
The idea was born in 1979 when a Japanese doctor Dr Shigeru Suganami and two medical students rushed to Thailand to extend assistance to cambodian civil war refugees. They had concluded that things would have been facilitatd if they have some health practitioners in the local communities. So, the concept got its form in 1984. and they founded "The Association of Medical Doctors for Asia". Ten years later, when the services of association extended, participants decided to change the name of the organization to "The Association of Medical Doctors of Asia". Today AMDA has also the members of the allied medical doctors and non-health professionals and its full name is AMDA - International.
Activities of AMDA - International are development projects and humanitarian emergency relief projects. It maintains field project offices in Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, Zaire, Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, Chechnya and Pakistan. AMDA - International promote the well-being of human societies and initiates programs which strenghten the relationships of its members. It organizes annual business meetings, biannual general conventions and publishes journals and newsletters. It colaborates with other non-governmental organizations which are members of International Network of NGOs for Emergency and Development (INNED), Asia-Pacific Relief Organizations Network (APRONET), and cooperates with agencies of the United nations such as UNHCR, WHO, UNICEF, IOM UNTAC.
BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR A BETTER FUTURE!
Project: period August - September 1999.
AMDA - RS
AMDA - Republic of Srpska
President: Prof dr Milan Stojakovic M.D.
International staff:
- Milan Stojakovic M.D., Ph.D. - pshychiatrist - project manager
- Mirela Stojakovic - lawyer
Local staff:
- Cvetana Crnobaric Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. August - September 1999.
International staff:
- Milan Stojakovic M.D., Ph.D. - pshychiatrist - project manager
- Mirela Stojakovic - lawyer - volunteer
Local staff:
- Cvetana Crnobaric M.D., M.Sc. - psychiatrist - project coordinator
- Srdjan Milovanovic M.D., M.Sc. - psychiatrist - project assistant
- Zorica Josic - psychologist - project assistant
- Milan Crnobaric M.D., - specialist of internal medicine - volunteer
Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. December 1999. - March 2000.
M.D., M.Sc. - psychiatrist - project coordinator- Srdjan Milovanovic M.D., M.Sc. - psychiatrist - project assistant
- Milan Crnobaric M.D., - specialist of internal medicine - volunteer
- Dubravka Nikolovski M.D. - specialist of hygiene, acupuncturist - volunteer
A C T I V I T I E S
Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. December 1999. - March 2000.
Presently thera are a lot of refugees and internally displaced persons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. They live in collective shelters, private accomodation or with relatives and friends all over the FRY. These shelters usually have inadequate living conditions: they are mostly workers barracks or motels with limited capacity, but now crowded with a triple number of residents compared to what they are supposed to house. Due to the lack of space, in a very small room usually sleeps 5-8 people. A lot of people still are sleeping on the floor without a basic hygienic conditions. Kitchens are not accesible in any of the shelters, so the refugees and IDPs are completely dependent on food brought by Non-Governmental Organizations, Red cross and groups of volunteers.
The majority of these people were exposed to various drastic experiences of stress: life danger, psychological and physical violence, loss or separation from family members, loss of entire property, a radical change of the previous socio-economic status, uncertainty about the future, loss of control over ones life...
Our activities was directed to identification of refugees whose health might be impaired as a consequence of previous stressful experience and poor living conditions, medical, psychology and law support and occupational therapy such as lectures and counseling in Public Health and prevention of disease, life in collective accomodation, ...
Project: AMDA 2000.
BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR A BETTER FUTURE!
AMDA - RS
Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. August - September 1999.
Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. December 1999. - March 2000.
The members of AMDA Chapter Republika Srpska Banja Luka are:
Prof. dr Milan Stojakovic M.D. Ph.D. - Psychiatrist, president
Ozren Kordic M.D. - General Surgeon
Mirela Stojakovic - Lawyer
Zdravko Maric M.D. PhD. - General Surgeon
Nebojsa Milanovic M.D. - Internist
Milan Zigic M.D. - Urologist
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