The work of volunteers serving aboard Mercy Ship’s floating hospital, the Africa Mercy, will be the subject of an hour long episode of Mighty Ships which airs on the Seven Network’s 7TWO this Sunday.
STAR OF THE SEA: The Africa Mercy is to star in an episode of Mighty Ships screening in Australia this weekend.
The program, which will air at 7.30pm on 2nd November, will show what life is like for the more than 460 crew – including Australians – who staff the ship.
The ship docks in some of the world’s poorest nations where volunteers provide free medical care to those in need. It is equipped with six operating theatres and a 78 bed hospital.
Alan Burrell, managing director of Mercy Ships Australia, says the program will bring back “many memories” for the thousands of Australians who have served aboard Mercy Ships’ vessels over the past 35 years.
Among those Australians who have volunteered to join the international crews have been surgeons, dentists, nurses, health care trainers, teachers, cooks, seamen, engineers and agriculturalists.
Mercy Ships was founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens and has since operated in more than 70 countries, providing services estimated at more than $1 billion in value and treating more than 2.48 million people. The Africa Mercy is expected to take up a new mission in Madagascar at the end of this month.
