Discovery Channel - Mighty Ships: Africa Mercy (2011)

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Africa Mercy is the world's largest NGO hospital ship. She travels port to port in the world's poorest regions providing medical care to people who may have never met a doctor or visited a hospital. 150m long and equipped with six state-of-the-art operating theatres, Africa Mercy can deliver medical care as good as any big city hospital in North America.

With her Nikon Coolscope telemedicine technology, top-of-the-line CT scanners and much much more, she pulls into port carrying a crew of 484 doctors, nurses, surgeons, dentists, cooks, engineers, seamen, naval officers, teachers, agriculturalists, etc. who will work 24/7 for 10-months straight providing world-class care.

In January, 2010 she embarks Tenerife in the Canary Islands for LomA©, Togo and her next 10 month assignment. Mighty Ships joins Africa Mercy as she prepares, travels, arrives and converts from ship to hospital to meet the needs of thousands of potential patients. In every port Africa Mercy visits she's met by throngs of people wanting to become patients of the only doctors and surgeons they will ever have access to. Everything needs to function and perform just as it would in the big city. But here the pressures are even more intense as the marine and medical teams contend with polluted water, no power grid and suspect politics to perform their primary job… delivering hope.

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Discovery Channel - Mighty Ships: Africa Mercy (2011)

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