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...
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,...
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...
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...
For Issa Deme, a paediatric nurse working in Dakar, Senegal, learning is a never-ending process. “Nursing — and the overall medical field — evolves, so you have to follow it,” he said. “You cannot stick with one technique or old habits.” So Issa didn’t hesitate when...