There’s a moment from her daughter’s birth in Sierra Leone that still plays over and over in Catherine Conteh’s mind, 30 years later. She had been in labour for four days straight. Catherine was writhing with untreated pain and crying out to God. The doctors said that...
Baba had a kitchen accident at his home in Senegal when he picked up the lid of a pot. Minutes later his hands and arms caught on fire, leaving him with burns so severe that he could no longer use his arm. He was used to manual labour as his family were peanut...
Dr Juliette Tuakli, Mercy Ships Diplomatic Ambassador for Africa, is uniquely positioned to speak into the need for greater access to safe surgical care across African nations. As a highly acclaimed Paediatrician and Reproductive Health specialist, as well as the...
The world’s largest purpose-built civilian hospital ship, the Global Mercy™ , is projected to serve 150,000 patients over the next five decades – and it all begins with Amadou, a 4-year-old with a windswept leg and bowed leg from southern Senegal. With an orthopaedic...
Despite working in the medical field in Cameroon for over 17 years, Fanta was too frightened to seek treatment for a tumour under her right arm. For nearly 10 years, she learned to strategically hide the tumour under draped shawls while she worked, refusing to have it...
If not for his surgery this morning, Elodie’s son, Emmanoel, would have died by suffocation before his third birthday. A tumor in his mouth cut off his airway to the point that he was passing out three times a day. Emmanoel’s shallow and labored breathing sounded like...