The hospital ship AFRICA MERCY has arrived in Freetown from South Africa and is to set up a floating hospital service for the local community at the request of the president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bay Koroma.
The hospital ship AFRICA MERCY has arrived in Freetown from South Africa and is to set up a floating hospital service for the local community at the request of the president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bay Koroma.
The extended visit by the ship is aligned to the West African country’s current five-year health care plan and will provide free health care for local people until November this year. The ship is fully equipped with modern operating theatres and recovery facilities and specialises in tumour removal, cleft lip and palate correction, cataract removal (in which ship’s doctors have developed new far-reaching technology), orthopaedics and plastic surgery.
Advance teams have already screened more than 5,000 patients in six up-country locations.
While in Sierra Leone specialists on board the Africa Mercy will also provide training for local medical doctors and care givers.
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