The Surgery Ship

Season 1

TV-14
A unique hospital ship offering life saving surgery sets sail along the coast of West Africa Africa. They have just one year to do the impossible - to provide the care these people cannot get any other way. On board are volunteer doctors and nurses - now headed straight for the biggest medical and ethical challenges of their lives. Ahead lies illnesses, many they have never seen outside of textbooks. A dramatic journey is underway as they deal with life and death cases and join with patients to transform lives.

Where to Watch Season 1

8 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1In a harbor in Western Africa, a large cruise ship has moored. On it are dozens of skilled doctors, nurses and support staff. They are here to offer live saving medical help to people who will not get another chance. For one year there will be state of the art surgery available for free, but people will have to hurry its a once in a lifetime offer. At the end of the year, the ship will go.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Surgery commences for three children, years after they were severely burnt. It'll take months of therapy for them to get their strength back.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Two patients are treated for deforming facial tumours and, while treating a baby with a cleft lip, Dr Gary is reunitied with a former patient.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 420-year-old Elisabeth struggles with a large facial tumour in Benin, a region where some believe curses cause monstrous deformities.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 520-year-old Elisabeth struggles with a large facial tumour in Benin, a region where some believe curses cause monstrous deformities.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6The screening team head into remote areas of Benin, where they treat a young girl with bowed legs and a return patient whose tumour has grown back.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7Mercy Ships' volunteers are faced with an Ebola scare, as surgeons give hope to a young girl with extremely disfigured legs due to her severe malnutrition; a teenage boy can't touch his toes due to a severe burns injury.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8In a nine-hour surgery, a mother has a crushing tumour removed from her neck, while her kids Riana and Joanes benefit from the life-changing intervention of Benin's Ponseti clinic.

 

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