Association of Medical Doctors of ASIA, founded in 1984, Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC since 1995

Since early December, AMDA has been carrying out emergency response activities in Indonesia’s North Sumatra region which was devastated by the large-scale flooding. At the onset of the inundation, AMDA Indonesia was quick to respond to the disaster by sending a team of medical personnel to the affected areas, followed by a team of Japanese nurses joining the effort.
 
Two Japanese nurses arrived in Sumatra on 8 December and immediately joined AMDA Indonesia’s advance team to

On 4 December, AMDA Indonesia launched emergency relief in response to flooding caused by torrential downpours that pummeled Indonesia’s Sumatra region since late November.
 

The rains have caused severe flooding and mudslides mainly in Aceh and North Sumatra Provinces. According to Indonesia’s disaster management authority, the extreme rainfall has left 916 people dead, 274 people missing, and 4,200 people injured, affecting 105,900 buildings in total (as of 7 December). In some areas, hospitals have been

On 18 November, AMDA's relief team conducted item distribution efforts at the municipalities of Pandan and Caramoran in the Philippines’ northern Catanduanes region, which were devastated by the super typhoon “Fung-wong.” 
 
The response activities were carried out in collaboration with the Asian Center of Excellence in Development and Security (ACEDS), the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) Catanduanes Chapter, and the Knights of Columbus. 
 

Through AMDA Afghanistan, AMDA has recently provided assistance to Afghan returnees who were repatriated from Pakistan and Iran, where they had been seeking refuge.
 
Ever since the Taliban overturned the government in August 2021, AMDA has been keeping an eye on Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation.
 
The political turmoil has led to an influx of Afghan refugees into neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Iran. However, many have been deported by their authorities in recent years, despite the present uncertainties back home.
 

As of 17 November, a joint relief team comprising AMDA, the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) Catanduanes Chapter, and other aid organizations have been preparing for item distribution efforts in Catanduanes, an island in the Philippines’ Bicol region that was devastated by the super typhoon “Fung-wong.” 
 
AMDA had earlier sent two aid workers from Japan to the Philippines to coordinate relief work with local partners. After arriving in Manila on 15 November, the team met with

In response to the super typhoon “Fung-wong” which devastated the Bicol region in the Philippines between 8 and 9 November, AMDA has sent two aid workers from Japan to launch emergency relief efforts.
 
According to the Philippines’ disaster response authority NDRRMC, 25 people were killed, 30 people were injured, and two people have been missing. The affected population has

In September 2025, AMDA Damak Hospital in Nepal launched CT scanning services after it introduced a Canon Aquilion Lightning 160 Slice CT Scanner. The hospital became the second medical facility equipped with a cutting-edge medical scanner in eastern Nepal, following B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), the largest hospital in the region with a 1,000-bed capacity. 
 
Having been an NGO-run facility, AMDA Damak Hospital has been offering medical services at reasonable costs, even for those who are not well-off. Naturally, the hospital’s CT scanning services have been available 10-20 percent cheaper than other private medical facilities in the area, making them accessible for low- and middle-class patients.

On 20 October, AMDA completed its relief activities in response to successive earthquakes that struck the Philippines from the end of September to early October. The response efforts were carried out in Cebu and Mindanao, which suffered severe damage. The mission lasted approximately a week in total, including the arrival of the Japanese team in the Philippines on 13 October and subsequent preparations.
 
To conclude its mission, AMDA's relief team paid a courtesy call to the town governor of Medellin in Cebu,

On 16 October, AMDA started its full-scale relief activities to support the victims of the huge earthquakes that devastated the Philippines’ Cebu and Mindanao regions.
 
From Japan, AMDA sent three aid workers to join the members of AMDA Philippines and the local partners on 13 October. The actual on-site aid activities began after three days of planning and preparation. 

On 12 October, AMDA dispatched two nurses and one coordinator from Japan to the Philippines in response to earthquakes that struck the nation’s Cebu and Mindanao regions in the last couple of weeks. The details are as follows:

1) Cebu:
On the evening of 30 September, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Cebu, affecting more than 720,000 people (over 200,000 households). According to the Philippines' disaster response authorities NDRRMC, 74 people were killed and 559 people were injured (as of 11 October). Buildings have been