Mercy Ships uses hospital ships to transform lives and serve nations one at a time.
Around the world today, billions of people live in fear, with impure water, inadequate food and little or no access to healthcare. Behind every statistic is a person waiting for hope and healing – and Mercy Ships works hard to bring that hope.
In many developing countries, even basic healthcare is out or reach. And in Africa, nearly 50 percent of the people have no access to a hospital or doctor.
Many nations in Africa are ranked by the United Nations Human Development Index as the least developed nations on earth, with only two doctors per 10,000 people. New Zealand has 10 times that ratio.
Mercy Ships takes hospital ships to the world's forgotten poor, bringing hope, healing and healthcare.
As 50% of the world’s population lives within 160km of the ocean, taking the world’s largest civilian hospital ship directly to the point of need, to people who would otherwise go without care, is a logical strategy to alleviating human suffering.
Taking a state-of-the-art, fully equipped and staffed, self-sufficient hospital into areas of extreme poverty means we can provide first-class medical care in the midst of desperate conditions.
In the poorest parts of Africa, children suffer and die from treatable causes. Mercy Ships sails into these regions to provide first-rate medical care that saves lives.
Our volunteer medical teams remove tumors, give sight to the blind, correct clefts, straighten crooked limbs and more. Over 95,000 free surgeries have been performed for people in poverty since 1978.
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