Sahr is a 32-year-old police officer with a wife and 4-month-old baby boy. He was 20 years old when he noticed what looked like a boil, which would appear and disappear, in his lower stomach. His late mother assured him that it was nothing to worry about. But it...
The tumour on 38-year-old Fidisoa’s back started out just like a tiny pimple... then it turned into a lump... and eventually grew to the size of a fist. Before long, the tumour had grown to such a size that when Fidisoa wore a shirt, any onlooker would have assumed he...
When a father passes away, a son struggles to remember as much about his dad as he can. Some of Hassan’s final memories of his father involved living with him while contracting the same condition that ultimately took his dad’s life: complications from an abdominal...
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...
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...
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™...