Welcome to Jackie's Blog

I'm so excited to be traveling to Freetown, Sierra Leone to serve on Mercy Ships as admin. to the medical staff on board the Africa Mercy. Many of you have asked me to post a blog of my journey; I'll try to keep you updated as best I can. I will miss you all and thank you for your prayers!

Disclaimer: This blog is my personal experience and opinion and opinions,conclusions and other information expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of Mercy Ships.



Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Dental Clinic - A Very Popular Place!


People in que for the dental screening - Many days over a thousand people have waited to be seen by the dental team.  The Dental Clinic is very popular because there are absolutely no services for these people and they just have to live with the pain until an NGO arrives with help!






This is Dr. Billy, a good ole Irish fella.  Last week the Dental Team saw 1270 patients and extracted 1100 teeth!  That's exhausing work pulling that many teeth...had to take a break for St. Paddy's Day and went to an Irish Pub (O'Casey's) for a Guiness.  Sadly, Billy was only here for two weeks and went back home to Dublin.  Sure am gonna miss the mate!

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