| | Welcome to Medicines for Roatan! | | Click on the image to see a larger version. |  Medicines for Roatan is a Honduran registered charity founded in 2006, in response to an urgent need for medicines at the public health clinics in the Bay Islands of Honduras.
It all started with a holiday visit and a chance remark. When a pharmacist from the UK first came to the Bay Islands on holiday in February 2005, her host mentionned that the local hospital suffered severe shortages of medicines. The long queues of patients being turned away and the hospital pharmacy’s empty shelves were a heartbreaking sight. As a pharmaceutical industry professional, she believed that it was possible to fill this gap.
Medicines are in principle provided by the government free of charge at public health facilities.But shortages are widespread throughout the public health sector because of an under-funded healthcare system- a common situation in developing countries. A temporary relief effort is not sufficient: a sustainable solution was needed to provide medicines for the Bay Islands' population of 100,000.
We founded Medicines for Roatan as a registered Honduran charity, which monitors the needs, procures and distributes essential medicines to the public health facilities used by the poor in the Bay Islands. We have an amazing local team who volunteer their professional expertise and time without monetary compensation. In our first year of operation, we provided enough medicines for over 25,000 patients . We are very proud of that first milestone.
But there is still a lot to do to expand our operations to the entire Bay Islands, and we need your help! It only costs $1 per person per year to provide basic life saving medicines , so every dollar helps! This site answers the most frequently asked questions. Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.
On behalf of Bay Islanders, thank you!
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