It takes skills of all kinds to bring hope and healing. See how our volunteer crew makes a difference on board.
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For Mercy Ships senior biomedical technician Nick Brown, it can be easy to forget that his workplace is not an ordinary hospital, but instead, one floating at sea. “On the engineering side, it is very much the same as a modern hospital,” shared Nick about the Global...
During Spring 2023, seven mentee surgeons boarded the Global Mercy™ while the hospital ship was docked in the west African nation of Senegal. Dr. Alida Ngandjio Sidi, a paediatric surgeon originally from Cameroon, came on board with confidence. She knew this was where...
Ngordy Sow was working as a national interpreter with Mercy Ships in his home country of Senegal when he received his next assignment. He was asked to care for a new patient, a young boy named Mamadou, who was on board the Africa Mercy® to receive surgery for a...
While the Africa Mercy® and Global Mercy™ were docked in Senegal, volunteer physical therapists from all around the world came on board for months at a time to offer their skills and expertise. More than 350 patients came across many different volunteers on the...
As a young boy, Dr. Abraham Camara was puzzled when relatives, friends, and neighbours came to seek medical help from his father, a high school teacher. “He was the only person who had gone to university, and he worked for the government,” explained Dr. Camara. Thus,...
Dr Sandra Lako’s childhood was anything but normal. Growing up on board the floating hospitals of Mercy Ships, she was just a teenager when she first sailed into Sierra Leone. Little did she know this was a country that would define the course of her life. There,...