SBS Documentaries

The Surgery Ship (2013x8)

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Out on the ocean, a ship of doctors and nurses is traveling to the poorest of the poor living in West Africa. It carries life-saving medical services for people who have none: children who suffer with terrible leg deformities, women outcast from their communities by birthing fistulas, vast tumors of all shapes and sizes which afflict the unlucky. The ship is the last hope for so many – and for the lucky ones, doctors will carry out lifesaving operations on unbelievable cases, many of which do not exist outside of West Africa and have never been seen before by these doctors. Nonetheless, the volunteer medics must make on-the-spot life-and-death decisions. The young nurses and doctors will be challenged to the limits of their training and abilities.