Projects
Each year The Solomon Foundation supports a wide variety of humanitarian projects in Solomon Islands, both financially and logistically. Some initiatives are ‘in-house’, but the foundation has a proud history of partnering with other like-minded individuals and organisations who are doing good works in the South Pacific. These partnerships are important as they expand our resource pool, and also help us to decrease potential duplication, thereby stream-lining vital services across a wide range of service providers.The Malaysia Project
The Malaysia project was a response to the ever increasing costs associated with overseas referral to Australia. Not just the cost of medical care but all the other associated costs such as food, accommodation etc.
Malaysia has a very low cost of living but at the same time very high standards of healthcare. It is a well known medical tourism destination globally and many hospitals have their own dedicated International Patient Department to facilitate treatment for overseas visitors. Typically, costs are one third of that in Australia.
The Solomon Foundation has the capacity to look after several patients and their carers at any one time, with 5 large ensuite bedrooms at our patient house in Penang. The property is next door to Gleneagles private hospital, which has been treating our patients very successfully since 2023.
Patients are collected from the airport by our dedicated driver/assistant patient co-ordinator Azam, who looks after the patients whilst they are in Malaysia. Patients pay a small daily fee which covers full board, accommodation and all logistics.
Malaysia is the ideal low cost destination for overseas medical referral as the weather is consistently good, the food is delicious with enormous variety and English is almost universally spoken.
In the coming months we hope to invite other South Pacific nations with overseas referral programmes to partner with The Solomon Foundation to look after their citizens.