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We are excited to add the next chapter to our decades-long collaboration with Madagascar by bringing surgical education and free surgeries.

Why child deaths during surgery are 100 times higher in Kenya

Dr Eileen Walsh, Dr Julia Gillard and Heather Ashford explain the OpCourage Warm Welcome Afghan service and how GPs can refer patients to the programme, as well as other sources of support for veterans and refugees.

Investing in developing systems of safe surgery to reduce Surgical Site Infection (SSI) will help to reduce the financial burden on health services

Four-year-old Amadou was the first patient to receive a surgery on board the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, the Global Mercy ™ today. Born with one windswept leg and one bowed leg, even sitting for

If you hadn’t noticed the new banner ad on the website, the Safe Surgery Coalition/South Dakota Academy of Ophthalmology has joined us on advertisers row for a short time encouraging legislators to educate themselves on Senate Bill 87, and to ask House members to vote NO on the measure.  If you review their website, they…

As a highly respected social philanthropist, she has served on the Mercy Ships International Board for over 10 years and recently joined the Mercy Ships UK board.

Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.org) is pleased to announce that Dr. Juliette M. Tuakli has been named in the newly created role of Diplomatic Ambassador for

After more than 30 years of partnership and service focused entirely on Africa, this appointment comes at a time of great momentum for not only Mercy Ships, but healthcare systems in Africa as a whole.

The USAID-funded MOMENTUM project is seeking ways to accelerate reductions in maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.