by Kaylee | Sep 30, 2021 | Blogs, Stories
Volunteers encounter a young baby, Prunel, whose mother has been ostracised because of her child’s ‘curse’. Featured patients also include Bignon – another baby this time with both a cleft lip and palate who is dangerously malnourished, and Barthelimy – a man with a...
by Kaylee | Sep 30, 2021 | Blogs, Stories
The volunteer medics continue to select and treat extraordinary cases of medical need. Featured patients include Ruth & Marina – two 5-year-old burns victims who become best friends on the ship, Miracle – a young boy with disfigured hands who longs to play drums...
by Kaylee | Sep 30, 2021 | Blogs, Stories
The hospital ship arrives in port Cotonou, Benin. The volunteer medics on board commence screening, surgeries are planned and the first patients begin treatment. The team faces mounting unrest in the crowd of thousands outside the screening centre and life or death...
by Kaylee | Sep 30, 2021 | Blogs, Stories
Go further behind the scenes of The Surgery Ship with the Director’s Diary The team behind The Surgery Ship series spent four months filming on location in West Africa. Here director Alex Barry shares his diary. 17 August 2016 The first thing we’re told to do when we...
by Kaylee | Sep 28, 2021 | Blogs, Stories
The Surgery Ship is a story about the incredible power of modern medicine and aid and, at the same time, it’s limitations. We live in a time of intense debate about the provision of medical services. Who should provide them? How should we pay for medicine? Who is...
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