Mercy Ships signed a collaborative agreement with the World Health Organization in the African Region this week, to improve surgery and anaesthesia services in Africa. The agreement aims to increase access to surgical care, and build capacity of health workers to strengthen surgical care delivery systems. It...
Alan Wolstencroft, current president of The Rotary Club of Banbury, will receive the Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland’s Champions of Change award in May. Alan has been chosen for his outstanding work in delivering education to children in Sierra Leone. He first became aware...
Mercy Ships would like to extend a huge thank you to Oswestry Borderland Rotary for supporting one of our UK volunteer crew for a six-month period in Cameroon. The club has been supporting nurse Melanie Langley (pictured right) through a brand new bursary, set up in...
The award-winning series about Mercy Ships, The Surgery Ship, is coming to BBC ALBA. The series, which has already aired on the National Geographic channel in the UK, and documents the Africa Mercy‘s time in Benin in 2016/17, starts at 10.25pm on Thursday 15 March. BBC ALBA...
Mercy Ships is delighted to announce the publication of an important medical paper in the PLOS ONE journal. The paper, co-authored by several Mercy Ships experts including Dr Michelle White of Great Ormond Street Hospital, is an evaluation of our implementation of the WHO’s Surgical Safety...
Find out how one of our partners, Medical Aid International, is supporting Mercy Ships on the ground in Cameroon What’s the point in giving out free medical equipment if the recipients don’t know how to use it or take care of it? That’s one of the challenges...
Mercy Ships is delighted to announce that it has been chosen to be the official charity partner for Essential Christian’s Spring Harvest event in 2018 and 2019. This marks the first time that Spring Harvest has partnered with Mercy Ships in its 39-year history. Peter Martin,...
This International Volunteer Day marked two incredible milestones onboard our hospital ship the Africa Mercy, currently docked in Cameroon. Volunteer ophthalmic surgeon from Texas Dr Glenn Strauss performed the 30,000th surgery on the ship - 10 years after performing the very first surgery onboard the Africa...
Last summer, Reverend Howard Gilbert from Cirencester completed a gruelling Ironman challenge in Sweden, raising more than £5,000 for Mercy Ships in the process. He ran, swam and cycled for more than 140 miles non-stop. So why did he do it? We asked Reverend Gilbert to...