The countries we serve have little or no healthcare. So, we see very complicated cases onboard our hospital ship. 

The Alsea, Oregon, high school basketball team hosted the final game of the season. Their record was 0 wins and 22 losses.

Volunteering onboard our hospital ship is an exciting experience.  But it can be a little intimidating at first. 

The remote regions of Madagascar are connected by bumpy, narrow dirt roads.  But Felicité needed surgery to remove a benign tumor on her neck.  

Shawnelle, Lonny, and their kids moved to a new town because of his work. But now he was on a business trip. 

A benign tumor in Africa is often a death sentence because surgery just isn’t available. Dr. Sherif Emil, Director of Pediatric Surgery at Montreal Children’s Hospital, volunteers onboard our hospital ship.  

Dr. Carl and Carol Luther serve as missionaries with Wycliffe in Papua New Guinea. Covid-19 has prevented their return due to travel restrictions in the countries they would have to travel through. 

Volunteers onboard our hospital ship often find themselves changed in positive ways.  Volunteer ophthalmologist Dr. Dominique Keremans from Belgium describes her experience.

You can’t provide safe surgery without safe anesthesia. That’s why Mercy Ships offers an anesthesia course for local medical professionals in the countries we serve. 

A noise complaint came into the Gainesville, Florida, police department on a Friday evening.  Some teens were playing basketball — loudly.