Project Description
Place: Sorong
Year: 2017
Yohanes Mambrassar is 29 years old and born in Sorong (Papua). After graduating as a physician in Manado, Yohanes immediately returned to Papua and worked in clinics in Teminabuan and Sorong. Since 2016 he works in the Raja Ampat clinic in Waisai. As a doctor, he is confronted with the poor health care in Papua, in particular mother and child care. The maternal and childbirth mortality rate is exceptionally high. There is little or no specialist help. Yohanes is on the road a lot and visits the most remote islands to provide medical assistance.
His boat trips are not without risks. On the Raja Ampat islands – in the far west of Papua – there are few doctors and certainly no specialists. Yohanes is now the only Papua admitted to the 4-year gynecology course at the Sebelas Maret University in Surakarta (Solo) and is determined to return to Raya Ampat and to work as a gynecologist. His family has contributed tremendously to the cost of his study so far, and they continue to do so. They have paid a large portion of the costs of the first semester, but are unable to do more.
Hapin doesn’t want to leave this ambitious and promising Papua doctor out in the cold. Although the high cost of this study is well above the standards of the Hapin scholarship program, we have made an exception for Yohanes. The Hapin team in Jayapura informs us that Yohanes is a devoted and beloved physician who is there day and night for his patients and has a boundless workforce. With his skills and dedication as a specialist, he will be able to improve health care for women and children in the remote islands in Papua!
