What the future holds
Last year, IMANA received hundreds of applications to its scholarship program. This year we’ve already seen a 12.5% increase, and it’s growing. To allow recommenders more time, we extended the application deadline to March 30. It’s clear that students are lining up for financial support because educational costs continue to soar.
IMANA Opens New Office to Support its Relief Wing
We opened our new office in Fairfax, Virginia, to support IMANA Medical Relief’s growing operations. In addition to IMANA’s headquarters in the midwest region since 1998, the new office space on the east coast doubles the office footprint. It leverages the area’s diverse, robust nonprofit sector and government operations.
Dispensing rational medicines in Gambia
The Gambia is in the midst of a public health crisis, with a shortage of skilled health workforce and a rapid increase of counterfeit medicines has left the poverty-stricken Gambians with no access to quality medical care.
In recognition of the problems The Gambians are facing, IMANA Medical Relief (IMR) in partnership with The Oasis Initiative organized their first-ever medical mission to the country. Dr. Ghalib Abbasi, Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from Houston traveled with a five-member volunteer team on an IMR sponsored mission — SaveGambia; to the capital city, Banjul from Jan. 24 – Feb. 1, 2020.
Volunteers needed for Surgical Mission
IMANA Medical Relief’s upcoming ServePalestine Surgical Mission to the West Bank is scheduled for February 3 -12, 2022, at this time we require volunteers from the following specialties only:· Anesthesiologist, CRNA, Anesthesia Resident/Fellow, and Surgery Resident