by Sue | Jan 2, 2024 | Blogs, Stories
From the moment Malang started to walk, his legs started to bow. His parents watched helplessly, knowing their young son’s future would be limited by his orthopaedic condition. Malang’s father Sadio took him for consultations at multiple hospitals in their home...
by Sue | Dec 29, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
“I always tell people,” confides Kevin So, ward nurse on the Global Mercy, “That this is the best hospital I’ve worked for. It’s a special place to serve here on Mercy Ships because everyone here wants to be here, you know? We’re all volunteers, so there’s a special...
by Sue | Dec 26, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
For Maria Kuo, an interest in Mercy Ships and the free surgical care it offers has always been a part of her life. At the age of nine, her parents took her to a Mercy Ships tour in Gisbon, New Zealand, where she learned about the urgent need for direct surgical care...
by Sue | Dec 21, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
“Why did I decide to start a career in medicine?” Dr. Mark Shrime began matter-of-factly. “Because I am the firstborn son of an immigrant family. I had three options: doctor, lawyer, or failure. That is the honest truth, that I went into medicine because I felt it was...
by Sue | Dec 16, 2023 | Blogs, General, Stories, Volunteers
Swedish mariner Tommie Kristensson has had a lifelong career at sea, starting when he was just 17 years old. “That’s basically what I’ve been doing my entire life. You may say it’s a very natural environment to work on a ship,” he shared. Yet despite his years of...
by Sue | Dec 15, 2023 | Blogs, Technical, Volunteers
If you were asked to picture a hospital crew, your mind may jump first to doctors, surgeons, or nurses. But it takes so many kinds of specialists, each with their own skills, aspirations, and tools, to keep a hospital running. Deborah Nutsugah worked in a hospital in...
by Sue | Dec 7, 2023 | Blogs, Technical, Volunteers
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...
by Sue | Dec 5, 2023 | Blogs, Children, Patients
Have you ever met someone whose eyes dance when they talk? That’s the very first thing everyone notices when they encounter 3-year-old Umu. Her aunt, Fatmata, has always been amazed by Umu’s effortless ability to make friends, regardless of where she goes....
by Sue | Nov 23, 2023 | Blogs, Medical, Stories, Volunteers
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...
by Sue | Nov 22, 2023 | Blogs, Children, General, Patients, Stories, Volunteers
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...
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