What’s a floating hospital?

With 260 million people spread across the world’s largest archipelago of 17,000 islands, Indonesia faces a unique challenge – unequal distribution of infrastructure. Some Indonesians, particularly in remote islands, have to travel for days to just to reach a doctor. In Maluku and Papua, the doctor to patient ratio is 1:1625, compared to the US where the ratio is closer to 1:250.

Between 2013-2015, DoctorSHARE performed over 1000 free surgical operations and hundreds of public health guidance programs for remote islanders. In 2016, our team led by Julia Tan (PT Multi Agung Sarana Ananda) raised 1 million dollars to convert a donated oil barge into a floating hospital. http://floatinghospital.doctorshare.org/