Of all the birthdays he’d celebrated in his life, Emmanuel’s 43rd would turn out to be something truly extraordinary. Just a few days after turning the page to a new year of life, a new chapter began. Emmanuel was wheeled into an operating room on board the Global...
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Life-changing Healing for Samba
After 56 years with a cleft lip, it took just a two-hour surgery to change Samba’s life. Samba, a widower with four children, worked as a cattle farmer in rural Senegal, where he faced discrimination due to his lifelong condition. He had grown used to his cleft lip...
Father is first patient in Sierra Leone to receive life transforming surgery on board Mercy Ship
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 – A 43-year-old man who feared he would have to live with a tumour on his face for life was the first patient to receive a life-changing surgery on board the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, the Global Mercy™...
William – Mens Health – Eyes
William patiently waits as the bandages from his right eye are removed. The 29-year-old sits perfectly still as his eye is wiped clean. He slowly opens his eye as everyone in the room, including his wife and five-year-old son, wait with bated breath. Silently everyone...
Samory – Men’s Health Surgeries – Dental Health
Samory never imagined that neglecting a toothache would result in a facial tumour that threatened to take away his dreams and his life. Four years after the toothache began, the once healthy 25-year-old was a shell of who he once was, as his tumour grew and his...
Sambany – Men’s Health Surgeries – Dental Health
Meet Sambany. A third of his 60 years have been consumed by a tumour that has slowly been growing from his neck. The tumour is now massive; it is a burden that represents 19 years of misery and disgrace. Because of the tumour, he had stopped praying. He didn’t believe...