[Memisa: from medical missionary action into a medical relief organization]

In the past seventy years Memisa Medicus Mundi has grown into an organization accounting for about half the annual number of Dutch health care workers in third world countries. On top of this, it gives financial and material support to many development programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Of all aid, 82% is given to so-called structural programmes and 18% to disaster relief. Physicians who return to the Dutch health care system as general practitioners after a period abroad are capable of efficient practice management.