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Medical Student Performing Procedure Patients in the Clinic Waiting Area Statue of George Faile II First Baptist Church in Nalerigu Faile Foundation VP Sees a Patient Caring for the Little Ones Nutrition for Body and Soul
The new incubator arrived via the Ghana Bandage Project and was provided by past volunteer in June, 2009. A child in traction due to a leg fracture. Bandage material provided by Ghana Bandage Project (see Bandage Project button at top). Donated offering envelopes are used as “prescription bottles” for clinic patients. Volunteers unpacking donated supplies. Volunteers package medicine in donated church offering envelopes. BMC supports a public health unit that provides medical services in outlying villages (see Needs List page for public health vehicle). Volunteer medical student performs a procedure under M.D. supervision. Tommy Harrison (center) - full-time maintenance volunteer at BMC over 10 years. Pharmacist volunteer making IV fluids in the pharmacy. BMC receives donated items such as this wheelchair from numerous sources. Dr. Earl Hewitt doing in-patient pediatric rounds. Oxygen concentrators donated from several sources in Rome, GA. Volunteer surgeon Dr. Sam Gillis (center) seeing a clinic patient with assistance with an interpreter. Commercial washer purchased by the Faile Foundation and donated to the hospital. Volunteer electrician working on a rewiring project funded by the Faile Foundation. A crowd gathers for daily water at a village well. A lab technician uses a microscope donated by the Faile Foundation. Dr. Faile doing upper endoscopy (see Needs List re: new endoscopy). A volunteer teaching at the Nutrition Center. A hospital chaplain prays with a patient. Over sixty thousand patients are seen in the clinic every year. Faile II is the hospital's founder. This statue is located in front of the hospital. This is the hospital cornerstone. It is a memorial to Dr. Faile II, the hospital's founder. The church was established as part of the spiritual outreach of the hospital. Dr. Cindy Shumpert sees a patient in January 2005. Numerous volunteer physicians and medical students continue to play an important role in providing care at BMC. This is the dental clinic in a local village. Dr. Fuller Robinson helped create this system which runs off a vehicle battery/ alternator! This door, which gains one access to the nutrition center, is dedicated to a past medical missionary. This box of medications is used at the tuberculosis ward. This is a separate facility at BMC that provides long term care—often months—for patients with this common and often fatal condition. Dr. Faile III, the current medical director and career missionary, stands next to the statue of his father. Career missionaries dedicate an unbelievable amount of time and energy in difficult conditions serving God and spreading His love. Children in the pediatric ward. An addition to this unit was paid for by donations to the Faile Foundation and have eased the overcrowded conditions of two patients to a bed and many on the floor. Paul Brock, Mesha Mathis, and Kwame in the OR. One of two operating rooms. BMC performs over 1,000 major operations a year. Rounds on the pediatric ward. Dr. Hewitt, a career missionary, is seeing patients. All of the parents are holding their child's chart in their hands. Barbara Wikman, a volunteer and nurse, talks at the nutrition center. Other medical and non-medical personnel have an important roles to play at BMC from just lending a helping hand to offering their own testimonial for God. Joan Brock providing physical therapy. A Ghanaian mother with two children and their normal mode of transport.
The new incubator arrived via the Ghana Bandage Project and was provided by past volunteer in June, 2009.
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