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<p>Hi ,</p>
<p>As you know I retired from working at Derriford Hospital in January 2011 However to finish my nursing career I am again for the last time going back to Ghana in November this year with a team of Doctors and nurses to Takoradi and other hospitals in Ghana to perform approximately 100 hernia operations in just over a week. This is all voluntary, we do not get paid for this and the patients do not have to pay anything. However we need to individually raise more than £1000 to pay for our own flights, accommodation, plus raise money for all the equipment/medical supplies we need to to take out with us, and this is where you come in !!!</p>
<p>Operation Hernia changes the lifes of the people and their families we help. Many are farmers and fishermen, who are able to return to work to earn money for their families. Many have been unable to work for years and this operation as everyone knows is taken for granted here in the UK.</p>
<p>In rural Africa, it has been estimated that less than 1 in 5 inguinal hernias requiring surgery actually receive an operation. Few patients with neglected hernias that strangulate may not even reach a hospital, and die needlessly. In rural areas previously fit young people die because simple surgical services are unaffordable.</p>
<p>Operation Hernia has supported surgical services in Takoradi and Carpenter with over 15 humanitarian missions and treated over 1000 patients that otherwise would not have received a potentially life-saving operation.</p>
<p>If you want to read more about operation hernia please visit <a href="http://www.operationhernia.org.uk/">www.operationhernia.org.uk</a></p>
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<p>Love Chris x</p>