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Many of the poorest cities in the world are ports – places with the highest infant mortality, shortest life expectancy and lowest income. Mercy Ships docks in these ports deploying volunteer professionals to provide world class medical care to those without a National Health Service to turn to Our newest hospital ship is self-contained, equipped with its own water, power, skilled volunteers and medical supplies. In this way Mercy Ships can side-step some of the basic and intractable problems facing other aid agencies – lack of reliable power, water, personnel and ways to deliver supplies – and make a lasting difference
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This project is designed to free up precious bed space aboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. The centre offers pre operative care (particularly adequate nutrition - applicable to so many of Mercy Ships' patients) and also allows post operative patients (most of whom cannot afford to travel back and forth for check ups) to stay near their medical team Project Goal: To increase the effectiveness of the surgical team aboard the Africa Mercy Expected Outcomes: [Improve an existing building near the docked hospital ship to] Provide 40 beds for patients awaiting surgery or needing post operative out patient care; provide another 40 beds for family/friends accompanying those patients. Project Cost: Total costs are £159,603