{"id":6585,"date":"2023-08-08T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercyships.onpressidium.com\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T23:45:19","slug":"le-prochain-chapitre-en-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/fr\/blog\/the-next-chapter-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Le prochain chapitre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\r\n\t\tDerni\u00e8res nouvelles\r\n\t<\/h1>\r\n\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tRavivons l'espoir et multiplions l'impact en Sierra Leone\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mission-sierra-leone-kabba-blog-qouwod2naf87b4938azna1u1urqoromv3c9p4sv1kc.jpg\" alt=\"mission-sierra-leone-kabba-blog-qouwod2naf87b4938azna1u1urqoromv3c9p4sv1kc\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"350\" width=\"800\" title=\"mission-sierra-leone-kabba-blog-qouwod2naf87b4938azna1u1urqoromv3c9p4sv1kc\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\r\n\t<p>Growing up on board the floating hospitals of Mercy Ships, Dr. Sandra Lako&#8217;s childhood was anything but normal. She was just a teenager when she first sailed into Sierra Leone and encountered a country that would define the course of her life.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sandra a quitt\u00e9 le navire-h\u00f4pital pour accompagner une \u00e9quipe m\u00e9dicale qui installait une clinique dans un village \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur de Freetown, en raison d\u2019une \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de rougeole. Sandra a pass\u00e9 la semaine avec les m\u00e8res qui amenaient leurs enfants malades pour les faire soigner.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;Of course, I was a teenager, so not skilled to actually help medically, but I was able to help the moms who were giving their children fluids to rehydrate them,&#8221; remembers Sandra. &#8220;Sadly, a couple of children died that week. That really had an impact on me&#8230; Those experiences are really what determined my plans to go to medical school.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\t<p>Sandra a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 la m\u00e9decine aux Pays-Bas, son pays d\u2019origine. Des ann\u00e9es plus tard, elle est retourn\u00e9e en Sierra Leone pour participer \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tablissement d\u2019un centre de sant\u00e9 par Mercy Ships \u00e0 Freetown. Il proposait des interventions r\u00e9paratrices des fistules obst\u00e9tricales pour les femmes ayant subi des l\u00e9sions lors de leur accouchement, ainsi que des services de sant\u00e9 infantile.<\/p>\r\n<p>Dix-huit ans plus tard, Sandra se sent toujours chez elle en Sierra Leone.<\/p>\r\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lxr0jtp23XA?si=ylLTV018lqDOSYjo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_7c_fjMKbU?si=CNwtRuwj9mfZPbkH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tSierra Leone : un pays de r\u00e9silience\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;What I love most about Sierra Leone is the people,&#8221; shared Sandra. &#8220;They&#8217;re vibrant, energetic, hospitable, but also resilient. They have been through a lot of challenging times, and it is just amazing to see people rise up and continue to aspire to do more. And I think that makes it amazing to be able to work together with them and to be able to make a difference together.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\t<p>Despite undergoing painful challenges in recent history, such as a decade-long civil war and being hard hit by the Ebola outbreak in 2014, its people have refused to let these obstacles become their legacy. Instead, Sandra says Sierra Leone &#8211; a nation of more than 8 million people &#8211; is known for its tremendous positivity and strength. Set against a backdrop of mountains and white sand beaches, Sierra Leone&#8217;s striking natural beauty is also a standout feature.<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tLes besoins chirurgicaux en Sierra Leone\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>When Sandra first began working as a medical professional in the country in 2005, the child mortality rate in Sierra Leone was the highest in the world. At the time, 1 in 4 children didn&#8217;t live to reach the age of 5. The opportunity to be involved in pediatric care and reduce these numbers played a large part in keeping her there.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s surgical care landscape has improved in many ways since those days. Yet the need for safe surgical care and education remains incredibly high.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;There are not very many specialist surgeons in Sierra Leone. There are currently only two anesthesiologists in public service, so there&#8217;s a real need to raise up a surgical workforce across surgery and anesthesia, nursing, biomedical engineering, and sterile processing,&#8221; explained Sandra.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the global surgery estimates, the unmet needs for surgery in the sub-region is really, really high,&#8221; echoed Dr. Mustapha Kabba, Deputy Chief Medical Officer &#8211; Clinical Services for Sierra Leone&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Sanitation. &#8220;Certainly Sierra Leone falls within this category because we don&#8217;t have enough specialists in country. We have primary healthcare systems that are up and running, but &#8230; we really need specialized people.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\t<p>One specific area of need is for trained maxillofacial specialists. There is not currently a single maxillofacial surgeon in Sierra Leone. This means anyone suffering from conditions like a cleft lip\/palate or facial tumor, for example, have limited opportunity to receive the specialized care they need in the country. Generally, their options include paying the significant cost of travel and surgery abroad &#8211; or simply living with their condition, and its consequences, indefinitely.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mercyships.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/mission-sierra-leone-doctor-lako-gallery-2-1024x704-1.jpg\" alt=\"mission-sierra-leone-doctor-lako-gallery-2-1024x704\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"704\" width=\"1024\" title=\"mission-sierra-leone-doctor-lako-gallery-2-1024x704\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tMercy Ships navigue vers la Sierra Leone\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p class=\"translation-block\">Mercy Ships est heureux d\u2019\u00eatre invit\u00e9 par le gouvernement de Sierra Leone pour dispenser des soins chirurgicaux dans des sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9s telles que la chirurgie maxillo-faciale, et proposer une formation chirurgicale durable, dans un avenir tr\u00e8s proche. En ao\u00fbt 2023, le plus grand navire-h\u00f4pital civil au monde, le <em>Global Mercy\u2122<\/em>, entrera dans le port de Freetown. Ce sera la sixi\u00e8me mission de Mercy Ships en 30 ans dans cette nation.<\/p>\r\n<p>Over the course of these decades, changes have taken root &#8211; from the national scale all the way down to the individual level. Along the way, partnerships have ignited hope and multiplied impact, with each action having a ripple effect over the years.<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tR\u00e9trospective : un impact multipli\u00e9 au fil des d\u00e9cennies\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Someone who&#8217;s been there since the earliest days was a young man named Patrick Coker. He first received surgery on board a Mercy Ship in his home country of Sierra Leone during its first field service in 1992. Patrick then waited a decade for the ship to return for the follow-up surgery he needed. Three years later, when Mercy Ships came back again in 2004, Patrick decided it was time to give back after receiving so much. He came on board to serve as a translator, devoting his language skills to helping other patients feel seen and heard.<\/p>\r\n<p>Aujourd\u2019hui, pr\u00e8s de 20 ans apr\u00e8s Patrick a \u00e9t\u00e9 ordonn\u00e9 pasteur et est devenu une voix porteuse d\u2019espoir dans son village.<\/p>\r\n<p>On a larger scale, Mercy Ships&#8217; partnerships have led to lasting impact over the years. After establishing a health facility dedicated to obstetric fistula care and child health, Mercy Ships handed over the hospital &#8211; now the Aberdeen&#8217;s Women Centre &#8211; to the Freedom from Fistula Foundation in late 2008.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;That center, to this day, continues to provide quality obstetric, pediatric, and fistula surgical care services to the people of Sierra Leone,&#8221; shared Sandra.<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tRegarder vers l'avenir en Sierra Leone\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Now, both old and new partnerships await. Dr. Kabba will be among those from the country&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Sanitation to welcome the hospital ship to her latest port. As a key counterpart within the government, Dr. Kabba will continue to play an instrumental role in sustaining an effective partnership between Mercy Ships and Sierra Leone &#8211; the kind of partnership that will lead to lasting change in the years to come.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;The Global Mercy is looking at the most sustainable approach &#8211; not just come, treat, and go, but now they are even trying to see how best you can work with the local resources available to have some form of presence, even when they are not here, to do follow ups, to support training programs, to support institutions like Connaught Hospital,&#8221; explained Dr. Kabba.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;When the ship comes with their maxillofacial surgeons to help in treating cases, we see this as an opportunity for our local colleagues to learn so that we can have this knowledge also transferred locally &#8211; so that in the absence of Mercy Ships, people can also continue to treat disabled patients locally.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<h2>\r\n\t\tSoins chirurgicaux et formation gr\u00e2ce au <em>Global Mercy<\/em>\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Over the course of this field service, Mercy Ships aims to provide life-transforming surgeries for more than 1,900 patients, including specialties like maxillofacial, orthopedic, ophthalmic, plastic reconstructive, and general surgeries. In Dr. Kabba&#8217;s eyes, it&#8217;s impossible to overstate the importance of surgeries like these.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a life-saving discipline. The types of surgeries you are providing are surgeries mostly for chronic issues where people are debilitated. After such surgeries there is a huge improvement in their quality of life. Children who have bowed legs, who are ridiculed in school, who cannot perform sports&#8230; they are no longer ashamed of going out in public. People who have pain from some mass on their face &#8211; when the mass is removed, the pain is gone.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\t<p>Entre-temps, l\u2019accent mis sur la formation et la promotion de la sant\u00e9 se concr\u00e9tisera de mani\u00e8re int\u00e9ressante en Sierra Leone. Au cours des 10 mois de mission, Mercy Ships s\u2019associera \u00e0 un h\u00f4pital gouvernemental pour offrir une formation pratique, o\u00f9 l\u2019\u00e9quipe m\u00e9dicale b\u00e9n\u00e9vole travaillera aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de professionnels de la sant\u00e9 nationaux pour \u00e9changer des connaissances et des pratiques. Cette approche collaborative de la formation offrira des opportunit\u00e9s parall\u00e8les de croissance et d\u2019apprentissage.<\/p>\r\n\t<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an African proverb that has always stood out to me, and it&#8217;s, &#8216;if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.&#8217; And to me, that is a picture of partnership,&#8221; shared Sandra. &#8220;And as Mercy Ships, we really want to work alongside our partners and work together to strengthen the surgical ecosystem in Sierra Leone. I&#8217;m excited that we will be able to be a part of training Sierra Leoneans and enabling them to provide surgery in Sierra Leone for their people. 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