Local capacity building

03.12.2010- Mercy Ships is committed to help build the health care infrastructure in West Africa.

Mercy Ships has a mission to increase access to health care in the developing nations. Through the deployment of the world’s largest private hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, Mercy Ships works with host nations to help fill the gaps in health care systems, while serving the dire and immediate needs of their population.

Mercy Ships provides a variety of training opportunities for local medical professionals (surgeons, nurses, providers, administrators and community health workers) along with curative surgical interventions and community-based preventative health strategies. Collaborating with qualified local and international partners, Mercy Ships programs offer holistic support to developing nations striving to make health care accessible for all.

This year in Togo, Mercy Ships also provided many services to the community : we were able to provide 1,706 eye operations, 815 maxillofacial, cleft lip and/or palate and plastic reconstructive surgeries as well as 120 obstetric fistula procedures. 674 orthopaedic surgeries and clubfoot corrections and over 13,972 dental procedures were also performed. 473 health care professional could benefit from training and coaching from our medical staff.