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Rotary and Mercy Ships

Focus on Disease Prevention and Treatment

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Mercy Ships - Overview

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Mercy Ships - Overview

• Established in 1978

• $1 Billion+ in free health care services

• 61,000 operations

• 540,000 patients

• Mentored/trained 29,500 local health care professionals

• 1,000+ volunteer crew from 30+ nations annually

• In West Africa since 1990

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Mercy Ships – Surgical Services Cleft Lip

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Mercy Ships – Surgical Services Eye tumor

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Mercy Ships – Surgical Services Goiter

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Mercy Ships – Surgical Services Soft Tissue Tumor

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Mercy Ships – Surgical Services Jaw Tumors

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Mercy Ships – Regional Focus

• 17 country coastal region of western Africa ranging from Senegal in the North to Congo in the South

• Goal: Improvement of internationally recognized health indicators.

• phased approach that includes:

- country assessment- pre-ship program activities- ship deployment- post-ship program activities- program evaluation

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Rotary and Mercy Ships – Partners for Change in western Africa

• Rotary and Mercy Ships are focused on impacting Disease Prevention and Treatment in some of the world’s greatest areas of need.

• Rotary-initiated teams of skilled professionals partner with Mercy Ships to help build local health workforce capacity through Rotary Vocational Training Teams (VTTs)

• Two recent examples in the country of Guinea

• Disease Control/hospital infection control

• Ophthalmic Training