10-Year Celebration!
APSIG is turning 10 this year and continues to do great work in the Asia-Pacific region.
APSIG has a vital role to play in increasing cancer patients’ access to radiotherapy in low-to-middle income countries of the Asia-Pacific.
We rely on your continuing support to help.
What Does APSIG Do?
APSIG organises volunteer medical physicist assignments to low/middle countries in our region to provide teaching, new equipment installation guidance, and setting up of treatment planning programs for local radiotherapy centres. We also support remote mentoring, donations of equipment, and visits of Asia-Pacific medical physicists to Australia and NZ for conferences and hospital training.
What has APSIG Achieved?
Since its inception in 2009 APSIG has been able to assist in funding over a dozen professional support assignments by Medical Physicists to lower / middle income countries in our region.
These assignments – from 4 weeks up to 1 year placements – have helped under-resourced hospital radiotherapy centres in Mynamar, PNG, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam and Mongolia.
We help build capacity of their radiotherapy staff to provide higher quality, more accessible local radiation oncology treatment services for their communities.
Our volunteers would not have been able to undertake this great work without your support.
Future Work Goals?
APSIG would also like to expand its work into areas beyond radiation oncology and help promote access to quality healthcare across a broader range of radiotherapy services. We are driven by our mission to bridge the current divide in access to the latest clinical tools and treatment technologies in medical physics across the Asia-Pacific region.
Support APSIG
So please, show your support of the vital work of APSIG and make a donation. Any level of support you can provide is greatly appreciated. And as APSIG is part of the Better Healthcare Technology Foundation (a registered charity), any donation you are able to make before the end of this month June 30 will be fully tax deductible against your 2018-2019 taxable income.
APSIG and the Foundation are committed to maximising the efficiency of all donations – and have a target of 90% of monies received going to actual on-ground support of APSIG volunteer assignments or other mentoring and training work.
To Donate
So please click here to make a donation and support the ongoing work of APSIG!
Keep your receipt to claim as a tax deduction for 2018-19.
A Recent APSIG Assignment
Read about the Cambodian assignment when Nikki Shelton took her family with her to Cambodia while she worked in Phnom Penh for one year.
Her assignment was to assist local hospital staff in radiotherapy to establish a totally new service.
Go to: Nikki Shelton in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Go to: Snapshots from Cambodia
Go to: APSIG Volunteer Assignments
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