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The latest Mercy Ships floating hospital, the ‘Global Mercy’ will be powered by four Wärtsilä 32 engines supported by a 5-year services maintenance agreement. © Mercy Ships
Wärtsilä powers world’s largest NGO hospital shipWärtsilä Corporation, 7 October 2020 at 1:00 PM EEST – The technology group Wärtsilä announced today that Mercy Ships, a philanthropic organisation providing essential healthcare to needy patients in developing countries, will be utilizing its engine technology in the...
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International humanitarian NGO Mercy Ships recently unveiled its newest hospital ship, Global Mercy. The 174-metre, 37,000-tonne vessel is equipped with six operating ..
For Mercy Ships, the dream of creating a fleet of hospital ships was born long ago. Responding to a World in Need Each year, 16.9 million people die due to a lack of access to surgical care.* A large percentage of these deaths occur in Africa’s developing nations, where the fragile healthcare...
According to an article published in CNN Money, founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships has operated in 75 countries, bringing life-saving surgeries and medicine to those without access to such care.
Bigger version coming soonRoland Decorvet, chairman of Mercy Ships Switzerland, refers to the ship as a “floating village” that reaches “the forgotten, the poorest of the poor,” and requires thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars each year. Decorvet says an even bigger USD...
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By Haley Hoar Globally, five billion people lack access to safe surgical care, yet it is estimated that over 25% of the global burden of disease is treatable by surgery. These staggering statistics are the reason behind the Mercy Ships mission, to bring hope and healing to the forgotten poor,...
Stena Line rounds up for charity
For the third year in a row Stena Line launches a donation campaign in favour of the non-profit organisation Mercy Ships life-changing work, bringing free medical care to where it’s needed the most with their floating hospital Africa Mercy. During the month of October guests travelling onboard Stena Line ferries are given the opportunity to donate by rounding up every purchase.
The campaign “Round Up for Charity” will be live onboard Stena Line’s 37 ferries in...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/10/01/stena-line-rounds-up-for-charity/
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Interferry to back Mercy Ships healthcare mission
Global trade association Interferry and Mercy Ships today announced that Interferry will support Mercy Ships, an international charity with the mission to increase access to healthcare in developing nations through a fleet of hospital ships. Interferry will highlight Mercy Ships at its annual conference in October and will further promote the charity to the association’s industry-wide membership.
“Mercy Ships bring free, quality...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/16/interferry-to-back-mercy-ships-healthcare-mission/
Stena Line’s able able seamen, Martina Thowsen and Alexander Gustafsson, are joining Mercy Ships’ hospital ship “Africa Mercy” as volunteers.
Stena Line’s able seamen volunteer for Mercy Ships
In the next few days two of Stena Line’s able seamen, Martina Thowsen and Alexander Gustafsson, will commence their journey in the Las Palmas ship yard where the hospital ship Africa Mercy is scheduled for maintenance before continuing the journey down to the coast of Senegal. Exactly what their specific...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/06/19/stena-lines-able-seamen-volunteer-for-mercy-ships/
A baby born with a debilitating cleft lip in Guinea has received free surgery from international Mercy Ships volunteers, marking the nonprofit’s 100,000th surgical procedure onboard its charity hospital ships.
Aissata, a 7-month-old child, traveled with her mother nearly 200 miles to receive the surgery on the hospital ship the Africa Mercy, which has provided free surgeries to more than 2,100 people in Guinea since arriving in August.
Their family is among the world’s estimated 5 billion people...
https://safety4sea.com/mercy-ships-marks-100000th-free-surgery-onboard/