Simon Latham, 39, and his wife Amelie, 43, wanted to help those less fortunate
A GP from Sale sold his home and moved his entire family to live on a hospital ship - 4,000 miles away in Sierra Leone. and applied to work on a hospital ship.
The family-of-five got the phone call inviting them to join the ship in February 2023 - leaving them stunned. But they were keen to do something to help people access surgical care who couldn't. They moved into a family cabin on board Global Mercy, run by the medical charity Mercy Ships, which has performed more than 117,000 life-changing or life-saving surgeries for people in struggling nations. Nine out of 10 people living in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to safe, affordable surgical care when they need it, according to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.
Simon said: "I get to see the impact here in a way I have never seen. What we can do and the change we can make it's transformational. I cried the other day on a ward round and I don't cry a lot. It is not just Simon who gets to experience the life-changing work first hand. Amelie helps with patients in the Low Care Unit after surgery - and Zara has also worked there for work experience.
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