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In October I head off to Ghana with Sue Johnson, our Surgical Care Practitioner from NGH.  

We are joining a team to spend two weeks out in Carpenter, in rural Ghana.  It will take about 14 hours to drive from Accra up to a small rural clinic.  There we will set up an operating theatre, and plan to repair aproximately 250 hernias.

The team will be made up 3 surgeons, an anaesthetist, nurses and theatre workers, coming from Leighton, Northampton and Canada.

We will take all the equipment we need, including gloves and drapes, anaesthetic, mesh and even a head light.

The local people are principally farmers and hernias are very common.  They will travel considerable distances to be able to access this service, with patients even coming from the Ivory Coast and neighboring Burkina Faso.

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So please dig deep and donate now.  Your money will buy vital medical equipment needed for the trip, and a few luxuries such as a toys, school equipment and footballs for the local children.

 

From Sue and myself and all of the team, many thanks in anticipation of your generosity.