{"id":6018,"date":"2024-09-05T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercyships.onpressidium.com\/?page_id=6018"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:23:00","slug":"hope-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/en\/hope-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/program-hope-center-PS2500.jpg\" alt=\"Program Hope Center\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"679\" width=\"2500\" title=\"program-hope-center PS2500\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ms-icon-cercle_patient.svg\" alt=\"ms-icon-cercle_patient\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"ms-icon-cercle_patient\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tThe HOPE Centre\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\t\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Canadian Program\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>The Hospital Out Patient Extention (HOPE) Centre is a facility that supports the hospital on board. It aims to provide bed space and free up beds on board the ship enabling more life-changing surgeries to take place. Patients and caregivers come from the distant provinces and stay after their surgery until no further medical intervention is required.<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tOur Work\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>In 2017, Mercy Ships Canada funded the $1.3 million HOPE Centre project in Douala, Cameroon which will continue to meet the health needs of Cameroonians long after the\u00a0<em>Africa Mercy<\/em>\u00a0has departed.<\/p>\r\n<p>The HOPE Centre was a home to plastic reconstructive, maxillofacial and orthopaedic patients recovering from surgery and provided a place for patients&#8217; loved ones to stay and watch over them while they recovered.<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\t2017 Hope Centre\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<ul>\r\n<li>234 beds<\/li>\r\n<li>64,194 meals served<\/li>\r\n<li>41 day crew working 24\/7<\/li>\r\n<li>6 Facilitators<\/li>\r\n<li>2000+ trips transporting patients<\/li>\r\n<li>31,811 patient and caregiver nights<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" 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