Vacation

Hi there all!!!!

Well, the Benin outreach is complete and the ship is one day away from arriving in Tenerife. From the sounds of things they are having a rough time of it. I, though, left Benin on December the 4th to fly home. My little brother is getting married and I didn't want to miss the wedding. I also got to meet my adorable niece Lucy. Lucy is my younger sister Sarah's little girl. So right now I'm having a great time reconnecting with family and friends. I visited Texas to see some friends from the ship and am now in Portland, Oregon, visiting my best friend Toni. I'm looking forward to relaxing and re-cooping before heading back to the ship on January the 13th. We then sail for Togo at the beginning of February. Here are the results of the surgeries from this outreach. In total we did over 6,000 surgeries, almost double of what we did in Liberia in 08. I'll also be sending out a newsletter in the next few weeks highlighting some of the patinets I have seen. Happy Holidays to everyone!!!

Procedures Procedures Persons Participants

Mercy Vision - MVBN09 Benin Smiles - DTLBN9

3,521 21,266 10,175 Training - 1st group 32 5

448 794 794 Training - 2nd group 41 4

Eye Surgery - affected by Strabismus 83 - 3,000 Repairing/Mentoring to Purchase 31 * above

Eviscerations/Enucleations 39 - 10,174 Repairing/Mentoring to Purchase 49 * above

Eye Evaluations & Treatments - 33,851 Avg Hr/Participant Participants Technician Training Workshop 20/25 10/16

Distribution of Sunglasses - 7,083 Train teachers to teach Oral Health 2 25 University Students Instruction 5 137

Distribution of Readers - 5,689 Train Beninese-Assistants- T.Bokpe 320hrs & E.Essah 200 hrs Church Leaders' Conferences-CECBN9

Patient Nights - 353 Train Beninese-Hygiene Instructors-A.Edoh 45 hrs & R.Idohou 45 hrs Cotonou 15.7 355

Training-Cataract Surgical Fellow-Wendy Hoffman 456 hours Palliative&Outpatient Care-OPCBN9 Hours w/Patients Participants Parakou 15.7 247

Nathaniel Henson 282 hours 592.9 28

Avg Hr/Participant ParticipantsSupport Burkitt's lymphoma patients * included above 6 Workshop #1 89:31 24

Training-Comm Eye Workers - Field Team 88 9 Train Family in Wound Care * included above 19 Workshop #2 88:52 24

Training-Comm Eye Workers -Tech Team 29 6

Training-Community Eye Workers - OR 728 3 Food for Life - FFLBN9 Avg Hr/Participant Participants

Training - Local Surgeons Agricultural Staff Trained 485/382 5/5

Mentoring Local Trainees - 23 Training Participants-

Outlook of Hope - RCNBN9 Procedures Construction of hostel - dormitories 100% % Completed - 1st group

Maxillofacial/Plastic Surgeries (w/o clefts) 1,018 OSAREH - OSABN9

Cleft Lip/Palate Repair Surgeries 163 Construction of Ped. Ortho Center 100% % Completed

General Surgery Repairs 1,161

Training - Local/Regional Surgeons Dr.Jaeggi 42 hrs & Avg Hr/Participant Participants

Dr. Yaradouno 456 hrs

Patient Nights - 7,757 63.5 17

Hope Reborn - VVFBN9 Procedures 54 12

Surgeries-affected by VVF/obstetric fistula 154

Training-Surgeons-Dr.Sa'ad Idris-80 hrs & Dr. Sunday Adeoye 80 hrs

& Dr. Alyona Lewis 64 hrs & Dr. Frank Asimwe 64 hrs 31.5 50

Training-Obstetric Nurses in VVF Care - Christopher Thembo - 64 hrs Number of Site Visits 372 Visits

Patient Nights - 1,754 Participant Opportunities 2,307 Opport.

Orthopaedic - ORTBN9 Procedures 29 part. 96 hrs. Decisions to Follow Jesus 2,423 People

Orthopaedic Surgeries 231 18 50 Received Prayer 2,183 People

Patient Nights - 628 18 220

Church/Community Leaders Training - Bethesda 21 part. 96hrs

MIERS 31 part. 96 hrs & Abomey 38 parts. 96 hrs & Bethesda

Corrections Officers/Prison Workers Training

3 day Upcountry Workshop

for 20 part.18 hrs&Abomey17 part18+18 hrs&Godomey16 part.18 hrs

5 day Children's Camp Mercy Ministry - HDMMIN

Health Care Workers Training @ Bethesda #1

Health Care Workers Training @ Bethesda #2

3 Day HCW Training Seminars - Porto Novo 17 part. 18 hrs & AGLA

F Fonton 179hrs & E Folly 192.5hrs

Workshop-Cust Srvc 19 part. 7 hrs & Leadership 18 part. 6.5 hrs

Stewardship 24 part. 7 hrs & Managing Conflict 14 part 7hrs

Restoring Hope: Mental Health - MHBN09

Dr.Doutitien 80hrs, Dr.Doussou 9 hrs Mentoring Administrative Personnel-ADMBN9

Dr.Alamou 32 hrs, Dr.Ogbe 42 hrs, Dr. Bell 59 hrs E Koffie 202hrs & M Sodji 173hrs

Homecare Integrated Mgmt Childhood Illness-IMCBN9

Infrastructure Development

Name - Hours

Eye Surgery - blind due to Pterygium Clinical Dental Hygiene Services

Basic Oral Health Education - Students

Basic Oral Health Education-Client at clinic

Avg Hr/Participant

Biomedical Technician - BIOBN9

Eye Surgery - blind due to Cataracts Dental Care-tooth decay, infections

Africa Mercy Benin Field Service Statistics February 10 - December 8, 2009

Surgical & Curative

Infrastructure Development

Surgical & Curative

Mercy Ministry - HDMMIN

Africa Mercy Benin Field Service Statistics February 10 - December 8, 2009

Date of this report: November 30, '09

Field Service To Date February 16 - November 28, '09