by Mel | Aug 28, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
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,...
by Mel | Aug 8, 2023 | Blogs, Stories, Volunteers
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,...
by Mel | Aug 2, 2023 | Blogs, Patients, Stories
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...
by Mel | Jul 7, 2023 | Blogs, Stories
Forty-five years ago, Don and Deyon Stephens had a dream. They wanted to convert a ship into a floating hospital, to bring safe, free surgical care to those who needed it most. They left their home in the United States, setting out into unfamiliar waters. There were...
by Mel | Jun 14, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
The patient’s blood was A+, and she was going to need a lot more of it. Mercy Ships volunteer anaesthesiologist Dr. Brian Barki and his team knew this for certain. As they gathered for a morning huddle on board the Global Mercy®, docked in Dakar, Senegal, they began...
by Mel | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
VOLUNTEER ROLES Ward Nurses Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the forgotten poor by mobilising people and resources worldwide, and serving all people without regard for race, gender, or religion. We have found a powerful way to share our blessings and we would...
by Mel | Jun 6, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
In any profession, mentorship and knowledge sharing are at the heart of empowering good workers to become great ones. This is especially true in the medical field, where skilled practitioners are responsible for providing exceptional care to those who need it most. In...
by Sue | May 24, 2023 | Blogs, Patients, Stories
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...
by Mel | May 24, 2023 | Blogs, Stories
By Dr. Serigne Gueye Diop, Ministre Conseiller à la Présidence de la République du Sénégal Sub-Saharan Africa has an especially urgent need to strengthen surgical care systems. Surgery has long been a neglected component of health care for people on the African...
by Mel | May 18, 2023 | Blogs, Stories
For Marthe Lamah, becoming an anaesthetist was a life-long dream. “Since I was little, I always liked to help vulnerable people,” she says – and she believed patients receiving surgery in the operating theatre were among the most vulnerable of all. “I understood...
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