THE YEAR 2012

The Second Medical Mission, 19 June-13 July.

Location 1,Jalingo and Zing-Taraba State.

The team arrived at Lagos airport and flew to Abuja immediately, another flight to Yola before spending another three hours by road to Jalingo and back to the venue, down town Zing Government Hospital in Taraba State after a long flight by the team from the US Lagos then Abuja another flight to Yola, Adamawa State. We paid a courtesy visit to our chief host and sponsor .H.E. Mr. Danbaba Suntia the Executive Governor of Taraba State who express his profound appreciation to the organization for being real and genuine. He directed his personal physician Dr Ahmed Kara  to ensure everything was provided to enable the team perform the mission with ease, We  earlier had dinner with the Governor to celebrate Dr Conrado Ordonez birthday ,he repeated the invitation on the last day of the trip to say thank you to the team at Government house. The mission had the highest numbers of volunteers for the year, eleven from the United States, one from India, seven Nigerians .Taraba  is considered to be disadvantaged State as Zing was so underdeveloped that we had our hotel accommodation in Jalingo the State capital meaning we have to drive four hours every day to Zing for our mission .Almost half of the team had malaria and typhoid ,water and living conditions was poor ,we equally had quick recoveries as God was on our side.

Location 2, Bali-Taraba State.

The mission train moved to another local Government, Bali was tagged a mission of frustration and sense of confusion without electricity as most of the surgeries were performed in darkness thank goodness there were Nokia phone touch and conventional touch lights. Yet some interesting cases in Bali included a pregnant young woman who self medicated and labored for days before her father rushed her to our venue under an emergency condition, we took her into the operating room for C-Section. The cute baby was delivered blue color struggling for life .Ambu bag is a luxury here and we cannot allow the innocent baby to die ,So Stefan Quartemont broke the safety rules of volunteer ,in accordance with our tradition to do whatever it takes to save a life, he had to performed mouth-to-mouth for about 10-15 minutes including prayers the miracle baby began to breathe on his own. During our almost three weeks in Taraba State we performed over 100 surgeries and more than 900 patients for clinical consultations/treatment. We concluded in Port Harcourt came back to Lagos before flying back to the US.

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