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

From 11 to 16 March 2025, AMDA organized emergency-response activities for the wildfire victims in northern Japan’s Iwate Prefecture. The relief work was conducted in two stages, both of which consisted of supply distribution.
 
On the morning of 11 March, AMDA dispatched one coordinator to Ofunato City where a massive wildfire broke out on 26 February. Although it had already been contained, over 100 houses were affected by the extensive fire and as many as 2,000 people had been forced to evacuate. By working closely with local partners and authorities, the first batch of relief goods (daily necessities

Due to the occurrence of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many Ukrainians sought refuge in the country’s western regions and overseas. Now that three years have passed, some of of those who had fled abroad have already returned to Ukraine. Yet, many have not been able to make their way home as fierce battles still continue in the eastern areas.

Activity Report (October 2024 – January 2025): City of Goodness (Ukraine)
 
Since August 2024, AMDA has been providing support to the City of Goodness, a Ukrainian medical charity active in western Ukraine bordering Romania.

The City of Goodness has been helping women and children who have evacuated from the eastern part of the country, which is close to war zones. In addition to providing them with a means of transportation, the organization has been accepting the evacuees at its own facility.
 
At the evacuation shelter which the City of Goodness

Activity Report (October 2024 – January 2025): St. Michael’s Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation of Children (Ukraine)
 
As part of the ongoing assistance in response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, AMDA has been supporting St. Michael’s Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation of Children, located in Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, in the country’s western region. 
 
Founded in 2018, the hospital currently has 225 children registered for treatment. Up to 20 children have been receiving

AMDA Peace Clinic (APC) in Bodhgaya, India, has been actively carrying out programs to support pregnant women, mothers and children since 2014. 
 
APC makes it a point to deliver coherent assistant by regularly reviewing and improving the services it provides. For instance, the clinic started covering part of the expenses required for an ultrasound, which pregnant women needed to bear, in 2023 based on the feedback that some women had not been able to receive the test due to financial reasons (as well as the lack of knowledge).
 
With this assistance, those who regularly visit the clinic have now been able to receive a sonogram every two

Since 2022, AMDA has been running a farm in a close proximity to AMDA Peace Clinic in Bodhgaya, India, which has been a primary health-care provider for pregnant women, mothers, and children in the area. Part of the fresh crops produced on the farm have been used for nutrition workshops held in line with the clinic’s maternal and child health initiatives.
 
When AMDA’s Japanese staff members visited the farm last autumn, one of the families who regularly came the clinic happened to drop by, and showed them how to

Since 2015, AMDA has been conducting health examinations at primary schools in Rwanda in collaboration with “Think About Education in Rwanda,” a Japan-based NGO keenly promoting better education for Rwandan children. 
 
As of now, a team of medical specialists led by Dr. Safina, who works at a local hospital in Kibilizi, has been taking charge of the health initiative. This time, the team organized school health check-ups between October and December 2024 at four local elementary

On 26 November, AMDA distributed relief items to 500 families residing in the town of Panganiban in Catanduanes, a province heavily affected by one of the successive typhoons

On the morning of 22 November, one coordinator and one nurse from AMDA Japan left for the Philippines to join emergency relief in Catanduanes, a province which was severely damaged by one of the six storms that recently battered the nation. 
 
The dispatch was made after AMDA was called for assistance by its local partner, Asian Center for Excellence in Development and Security, to respond to the high level of devastation in the region.