Debbie Hammond-Watson, an RN from the Newcastle area, has been on board the YWAM Medical Ship for two outreaches now- one in 2010, and Outreach 4 this year in the village of Karati, Gulf Province, PNG. If you were to ask Debbie last year at the …
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July 29, 2011 Tags: Debbie Hammond-Watson, Gulf Province, Karati Village, Outreach 4, PNG, YWAM Medical Ship
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Doctor on board for Outreach 5, Nyree Swan, shares a story of when the ship was in the Western Province:
Above: Clinic Leader, Jennifer Perry, and volunteer doctor, Nyree Swan, on their way to a village in the Western Province
Our visit to the village of …
Read MoreJuly 28, 2011 Tags: Achilles tendon, Nyree Swan, Outreach 5, PNG, volunteer doctor, Western Province, YWAM Medical Ship
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July 26, 2011 Tags: facts about PNG, july 26th, newspapers in education, NIE, townsville bulletin, YWAM Medical Ship
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July 19, 2011 Tags: children, july 19th, newspapers in education, NIE, repairing eyesight, townsville bulletin, YWAM Medical Ship
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It’s a great thing that the medical ship gets to help so many people every day. It’s even better when one of those people walk away with the skills needed to continue caring for themselves or others once the ship has gone.
While the ship was in the village of Abam, there was a long line …
Read MoreJuly 15, 2011 Tags: Abam, Father of three, Hannah Thornton, health care team, nurse, wounds, YWAM Medical Ship
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A 60 year old man was carried by his daughter to the YWAM Medical Ship last week because he couldn’t walk. The woman brought him to a clinic to see if the YWAM health care team could assist.
The man, who hadn’t been able to walk or sit …
Read MoreJuly 14, 2011 Tags: 60 year old, back tenderness, carried, health care clinic, YWAM Medical Ship
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Jeffrey Wall, CBE graciously wrote this article “Neighbourly Hand”, printed in the Townsville Bulletin 11 July 2011:
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July 12, 2011 Tags: health services, Jeffrey Wall, neighbour, neighbourly hand, Papua New Guinea, YWAM
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July 12, 2011 Tags: Debbie Bollinger, July 12th, living on a medical ship, Medical Ship, NIE
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Alex Norris, an optometrist from Cairns recently joined the ship for an outreach and was surprised at what he found:
“I have been amazed at how many people we have been able to help out. Many of the people we help by supplying spectacles to know full well they have vision problems but simply can’t afford …
Read MoreJuly 11, 2011 Tags: Alex Norris, bus driver, Cairns, glasses, optometrist, Port Moresby, YWAM Medical Ship
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Check out this video recap made by one of our volunteers on outreach 4!
Background Music used with permission from Woje
Read MoreJuly 8, 2011 Tags: Medical Ship, Outreach 4, outreach video, PNG, YWAM
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