Physicians for Peace was founded in 1989 and has a slightly different strategy in helping the developing world in comparison to other aid organisations.

The approach and philosophy it uses, believes that health care in the third world countries can best be improved by providing training and education to professionals and health organisations in those countries. The long term medical education programme is conducted by volunteers such as physicians, dentists, nurses, physical therapists and other professionals in the respective countries.

Physicians for Peace has been working with the local government and hospitals in Asmara to help educating and training Eritrean doctors as well as to treat patients.

In its latest project with the Halibet Hospital in Asmara the organization has send a team of specialized surgeons from Chicago and Arizona, which spent two weeks performing limb reconstructive  operations and trained Eritrean orthopedists in latest techniques.

According to the Physicians most of the patients suffer from polio, clubfoot, cerebral palsy and cerebral injuries. The result of working 10 hours each day for 9 days was 59 surgeries and newly trained Eritrean orthopedists. Read more: Physicians for Peace Eritrea.

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