Mariama Koroma
Mariama Koroma was born under less-than-adequate conditions, with no trained midwife. The delivery left her with a large umbilical hernia. At age 2 and ½ Mariama stopped walking after her spine […]
Kaday Conteh
Kaday Conteh lost her mother when she was three. Her father, a poor farmer, had never been able to send Kaday or her two older sisters and older brother to
Kadiatu Conteh
On October 25, when Africa Surgery first saw Kadiatu Conteh, a 27 year-old mother of one, we feared that the large tumor that was blocking most of her mouth might kill
Betty Brima & Lamine Sesay
In January, 2019,when a team of reconstructive plastic surgeons from the Paris-based organization Doctors of the World (MDM) (www.doctorsoftheworld.org) visited the Seventh Day Adventist hospital in Masanaga, Sierra Leone. Betty
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Joseph Sesay & Mabinti Turay
Joseph Sesay, 22, and Mabinti Turay, 27, are recent patients who came to us with jaw infections originating from decaying teeth. They are just two of the 37 patients whom we
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