Indonesia’s geography makes equitable healthcare delivery exceptionally difficult. Remote island communities often face long distances to health facilities, shortages of doctors and specialists, limited infrastructure and high costs of travel. These barriers are particularly severe in underserved districts, where delayed or unavailable care contributes to poor health outcomes across maternal health, infectious disease, stunting, surgery and emergency care.

doctorSHARE brings healthcare directly to underserved communities through a model that combines floating hospitals, on-land clinics, emergency response and flying doctor missions. Its vessels provide services such as surgery, specialist consultations, maternal care, diagnostics and dental care, while its medical volunteers and staff coordinate closely with local governments and health facilities. The organisation also trains local health workers and supports follow-up care so that deployments leave behind stronger local capacity.

doctorSHARE offers a distinctive model for last-mile healthcare in archipelagic and hard-to-reach settings. Its work is now moving beyond direct service delivery toward broader system adoption: codifying the floating hospital and flying doctors model, influencing regulation, integrating with national health financing and exploring how mobile healthcare delivery can become part of public health infrastructure.