2. WONM Humanitarian Medicine:
 Presented by:
 Hon.Dr. Sheila McKenzie, President,
 Dr. Humanitarian Services, Public Health Diplomat,
Dame commander of the Sovereign Orthodox Order of
Knights Hospitallers (OOSJ). Global ambassador for
women’s Rights-National Coalition Party of
Canada(NCPC).

3. WONM-Clinics for Humanity
 The World Organization of WONM is an
international politically and religiously neutral
humanitarian NGO.
 Mission:
 To provide healthcare to underserved people; and
to promote humanitarian values through
education.

4. WONM Appointed delegates
 The work of WONM’s delegates is geared toward
peace, the enforcement of the respect of life, human
rights includes rendering help and support to all
people of the world, observing the right of safety and
peace in all aspects; moral, political, diplomatic,
cultural, religious, economic and social.

5. WONM-WHO
 WONM adopts The WHO 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration
of 1978
 which states that “health, which is a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a
fundamental human right and that the attainment of
the highest possible level of health is a most important
world-wide social goal whose realization requires the
action of many other social and economic sectors in
addition to the health sector.”

6. Departments
 Humanitarian Medicine outreach
 Education

7. Humanitarian Medicine
 “If access to MODERN health is considered a human
right, then who is considered human enough to have
that right?”

8. Humanitarianism?
 Humanitarianism is an informal ideology of
practice, whereby people practice humane treatment
and provide assistance to others; it is the doctrine that
people's duty is to promote human welfare.

9. Humanitarianism?
 Humanitarianism is based on a view that all human
beings deserve respect and dignity and should be
treated as such. Therefore, humanitarians work
towards advancing the well-being of humanity as a
whole.

10. Humanitarianism?
 These fundamental principles serve two essential
purposes. They embody humanitarian action’s single-
minded purpose of alleviating suffering,
unconditionally and without any ulterior motive

11. Humanitarianism?
 The most important principles of humanitarian action
posits the conviction that all people have equal dignity
by virtue of their membership in humanity,
impartiality, which directs that assistance is provided
based solely on need, without discrimination among
recipients, neutrality,.

12. Humanitarianism?
 Embrace and accept all systems of medicine
 Respect for the human body
 Do no harm
 Treatments that are in alignment with traditional
healthcare systems.
 Empowerment of people
 Medicine and treatment systems that are affordable
for all people.

13. Humanitarianism?
 Humanitarianism drives people to save lives, alleviate
suffering and promote human dignity in the middle of
man-made or natural disasters, uplifting people from
poverty
 These fundamental principles serve two essential
purposes. They embody humanitarian action’s single-
minded purpose of alleviating suffering,
unconditionally and without any ulterior motive

14. Humanitarianism?
 Humanitarianism drives people to save lives, alleviate
suffering and promote human dignity in the middle of
man-made or natural disasters, uplifting people from
poverty

15. Clinics for Humanity™
 Clinics for Humanity provides humanitarian
healthcare service to under serve people in local
community and international communities with a
minimum of technological, financial, and human
resources.

16. Humanitarian Healthcare
 Many governments are restricted in providing cost-
effective primary healthcare to the poor,
 Reliance on manufactured drugs.
 Many doctors are at a loss without expensive hospital
technology, technicians, and manufactured drugs

17. Humanitarian Healthcare
 Their lack of knowledge with respect to traditional,
eclectic medicine prevents them from using
inexpensive, effective and reliable sources of
healthcare delivery especially for the medicine to the
world economically deprived people

18. Education?
 Many doctors are at a loss without expensive hospital
technology, technicians, and manufactured drugs
 Their lack of knowledge with respect to traditional,
eclectic medicine prevents them from using
inexpensive, effective and reliable sources of
healthcare delivery especially for the poor

19. Humanitarian Healthcare
 Humanitarian outreach is the key to successfully
promoting health and combating disease.
 Requires that indigenous people’s rights and all
systems of medicine must work together for the best
out come for suffering people worldwide.

20. Humanitarian Healthcare
 Effective health intervention requires attention to
community-wide needs and resources, team building,
and strategic planning - concepts infrequently
addressed in the education of healthcare
professionals.

21. HUMANITARIAN HEALTHCARE TO UNDER SERVED
PEOPLE

23. Humanitarian Medicine
Outreach

24. Effective Healthcare to the poor
 Many governments are restricted in providing cost-
effective primary healthcare to the poor,
 Reliance on manufactured drugs.
 Many doctors are at a loss without expensive hospital
technology, technicians, and manufactured drugs
 Their lack of knowledge with respect to traditional,
eclectic medicine prevents them from using
inexpensive, effective and reliable sources of
healthcare delivery especially for the poor

25. Healthcare for the Poor
 UHM programs are designed for healthcare
professionals who would like to integrate their
practices or for humanitarian medicine outreach.

26. UHM Education
 “to provide humanity with an international institution
of higher education for peace with the aim of
promoting among all human beings the spirit of
understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to
stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help
lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and

27. UHM Education
 The central importance of education, training and
research in all their aspects to build the foundations of
peace and progress and to reduce the prejudice and
hatred on which violence, conflict and terrorism are
based is increasingly recognized. The Charter of the

28. WONM
 UHM commission is to contribute to the great
universal task of being our brothers keeper by engaging
in teaching, research, post-graduate training and
dissemination of knowledge fundamental to the full
development of the human person and societies
through the interdisciplinary study of all matters
related to humanitarian actions”.

29. Declaration
 keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall
strive by teaching and education to promote respect
for these rights and freedoms and by progressive
measures, national and international, to secure their
universe

30. UHM CLINICAL TRAINING-
 UHM students acquire clinical skill by administering
humanitarian medicine healthcare to impoverished
people worldwide.

31. Humanitarian Healthcare

32. Humanitarian outreach in
Action

33. CLINICS FOR HUMANITY™
 World is our clinical department
 Medicine to the developing nations
 Rewarding and challenging
 Beyond emergency medicine to wilderness medicine

34. PARTNERSHIP
 Under WONM Clinics for Humanity™ ,
 Healthcare providers administer integrative medicine
healthcare services geared towards poor.
 Partnership with , healthcare providers and students
and under the auspices of a regional ambassador.
 You can become a partner and work as a group with a
WONM ambassador in your region.

35. HELP

36. University of Humanitarian
Medicine

37. University of Humanitarian Medicine
 The an international hub for inter- education
collaboration of WONM affiliate member
educational organizations.
 Its mission serve as:
 - an international community of scholars of
Humanitarian Medicine,
 - bridge between, humanitarian educational resource
institutes and other humanitarian organizations.
 - think tank in support of the World Organization of
Natural Medicine Humanitarian programs.

38. UHM PROGRAMS
 Professional development for healthcare providers
 Certification: Doctor of Humanitarian Services/Doctor
of Integrative Medicine/
 Doctoral Research
 Fellowships
 Seminar
 Conferences

39. Special Appeal
 We are depending on everyone in the sound of my
voice to support WONM Kuwait ambassador to be a
leader in this region for his humanitarian medicine
outreach programs.
 Thank you