Today at our Monday morning community meeting, our head surgeon, Dr. Gary Parker, spoke a little bit about what to expect at the huge mass screening we will do on February 1st to look for potential surgical candidates.
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With a background as a touring rock star and an Executive Chef, Ken Hatfield joins Mercy Ships as the new Food Service Manager. His journey is one of total transformation and redemption – leaving behind a world of luxury and stardom for life onboard the Africa Mercy, a state-of-the-art hospital ship in West Africa.
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Throughout each field service, Mercy Ships is committed to investing in local health care infrastructure in ways that will continue to have an impact long after the ship leaves. In keeping with this long-term capacity-building strategy, Mercy Ships donated three modular buildings to Rokupa Government Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the end of the 2011 Sierra Leone Field Service.
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On November 25, 2011, Mercy Ships held a ceremony to celebrate the donation of the drill rig and associated equipment and supplies to Living Water Sierra Leone. This Mercy Ships partner organization equips local people to implement water projects – including shallow well drilling, pump repair and hygiene education.
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On 19 December 2011, the Africa Mercy held a reception to celebrate twenty years of friendship and collaboration with the Republic of Ghana. The occasion focused on past and future partnerships for health care development in Ghana and beyond. In all, one hundred and twenty guests came to further develop their relationship with Mercy Ships.
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While taking care of her niece, Lamarana also found time to help the hospital crew by translating for other patients. She speaks several languages – Fula, Mende, Krio, Temne, English, and some French – and was a tremendous help to the nurses. Her communication skills were a great asset on the ward as patients come from all over West Africa.
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A SURGEON is back home in Cambridge after performing life-saving operations on board a giant African hospital ship.
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Since Alberta was eighteen months old, Mariah has raised her, allowing the child’s young mother to finish her education. Three years ago, Mariah was cooking over an open fire in front of her Liberian home when Alberta awoke from her nap. Still groggy from sleep, the little girl walked too close to the fire, falling near the cooking oil. It splashed over her left arm and leg, up her back and over the back of her head. The fire quickly followed. The little girl’s left arm was terribly burned, immobilizing its position at her side. Her leg, back and the back of her head were also severely burned and scarred.
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The Africa Mercy, a charity-funded hospital ship docked in Sierra Leone, provides the most sophisticated medical facility in the region.
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Fatmata sat quietly in the Admissions tent cuddling her sixteen-month-old daughter in her lap. She had been searching for over a year for someone to give her some hope that little Sidiatu might have a normal life.
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For seventeen years, people laughed at her and mocked her because of her legs – horribly misshapen and knock-kneed. The constant verbal abuse made her feel ashamed. Walking was difficult and tiring, so she didn’t go to school. She just stayed at home in her misery. A free surgery revolutionized the life of this young woman and changed her life forever!
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Mercy Ships is proud to announce a three-year strategic partnership with Rotary International beginning in Fall 2011. The two organizations have a history of working together on an international scale to positively impact health care in developing nations.
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Dr. Ayo Bello from Nigeria is currently serving short-term onboard the Africa Mercy for the third year in a row. His association with Mercy Ships led him to examine his life. He started the Ayo Bello Foundation which offers eye surgeries to the poor, without charge. “Why shouldn’t I go to the next town in Nigeria to do something good?” he asked. To date, well over five hundred surgeries have been done.
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Veronica Weatherhead, a nurse from the UK, has done several missions with Mercy Ships in the past few years. Having seen so many youngsters recovering in the wards after surgeries and realizing they don’t own any toys, she wanted to provide some comfort for them.
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The Rotary Clubs of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Lexington, North Carolina (U.S.A.), in partnership with several other U.S.-based Rotary clubs, have been awarded a grant from The Rotary Foundation to work with Mercy Ships, an international health care development agency.
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My sister keeps asking me about what we do here on the ship… and so I feel like it is going to be my new goal to expose you to the variety of activities that we have going on the ship!
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Senior nursing student Kailey Tyson has always had a heart for medical missions. Her mother heard about Mercy Ships when Tyson was 13, and she’s been praying about going ever since.
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When a volunteer joins a Mercy Ships' crew, they often are agreeing to completely change their life for a while. Listening to John Harwood talk at a local coffee shop about his life in the past few years, you have to wonder whether change is something he's used to.
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As a member of the Danish Ferry Institute, Milan kept his interest in the Dronning Ingrid alive. When Mercy Ships bought the ferry in 1999, it was moved to Newcastle, United Kingdom, to be renovated to become the hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. “I had never heard of Mercy Ships before and wondered what Mercy Ships was. What would a religious group want with a ferry? We didn’t know what God was doing with the Dronning Ingrid.” Milan’s interest was piqued as he followed the progress of the renovation.
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A THEATRE nurse at Basingstoke hospital has spoken about her “humbling experience” after spending three weeks volunteering on board the world’s largest charity hospital ship.
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