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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