The floating hospital and its volunteers bring hope to people without medical access in West Africa who own been ostracised by their communities It was approximately 15 years ago that I first heard approximately Mercy Ships,the world’s largest non-governmental floating hospital. Staffed nearly entirely by volunteers, the charity is committed to alleviating human suffering by bringing world class surgical and community services to the poorest of the destitute in West Africa and across the world. Back then, and I had just started my first consultant job in the UK,working as an oral maxillofacial reconstructive surgeon in Cambridge. One day, Lord Ian McColl, and then a trustee and surgeon on board the ship,and his late wife Jean, came to our church to talk approximately Mercy Ships and show us before and after pictures of some of the people they had treated.
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Source: theguardian.com