Samaritan’s Purse has delivered critical medical supplies and equipment to a regional hospital in northern Ethiopia. Conflict in the region over the last 18 months has crippled the medical system and cut off critical, life-saving care from hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. In mid-February, our DC-8 aircraft, departed North Carolina carrying more than 13 tons…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
El Hospital Móvil de Emergencias abierto en Ucrania
The Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital is open in western Ukraine, and our medical team is already treating patients suffering due to the escalating conflict. “We come in the Name of Jesus Christ, and we hope this hospital is a blessing to you,” Elliott Tenpenny told those gathered at the hospital today, March 14. Tenpenny…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Llevando suministros médicos por aire
The scene resembled something out of a movie. Bomb craters pockmarked the front lawn of an institution meant to bring healing and care. “A lot of sick people had to evacuate,” Dr. Tamara explained as she looked out over the property of the recently-shelled hospital in her hometown in central Ukraine. “This hospital was really…
Corazones nuevos, un propósito nuevo en Mongolia
At first glance, Erdembayar seems like an ordinary 12-year-old boy. He enjoys participating in physical education class at school with his friends as well as riding horses and cooking Korean food, fried rice, and cakes. But up until three years ago, he didn’t have energy for any of these things. For years previously, Erdembayar had…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Había rosas…
Before the war, Olga* enjoyed her life in far eastern Ukraine. She hopped the train to a job she enjoyed, cherished a comfortable home with a small summer kitchen out back, and tended her garden. She grew beautiful roses and carefully nurtured a prized cherry tree from sapling to maturity. Almost two decades in this…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Ayudamos a salvar bebés en Liberia
Samaritan’s Purse medical teams have performed hundreds of life-changing cleft lip and palate surgeries in Liberia. Sadly, though, some Liberian children born with this condition never have the opportunity to receive such medical treatment. Sometimes their lives are snuffed out at birth or shortly thereafter by family members or midwives just because of the severe…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Enviando obreros a su cosecha
In Luke 16:10, Jesus made a profound statement to His disciples, “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.” When He calls His followers to action, the size or significance of the assignment shouldn’t be our main consideration. Obedience is what matters. Drs. Lowell and Richard Furman were running a…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Dile que sí a las misiones médicas
Dr. Jim Foulkes answered God’s call to medical missions in 1958. For 38 years, the general surgeon ministered to the physical and spiritual needs of patients at Mukinge Mission Hospital in Kasempa, Zambia. He worked alongside World Medical Mission volunteer doctors and is credited with initiating the vision for what later became the Post-Residency Program.…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Ayudamos a pacientes con quemaduras en Armenia mientras sigue la crisis
Edik had lost hope that he would ever walk again. On the day of the explosion, he had walked 12 miles with his cousin, Valeri. They stopped to fill their fuel cans, the last task to complete before leaving Nagorno-Karabakh. “Suddenly, we were thrown to different places. I was in some kind of pit. Once…
Hacer un impacto duradero
“An American missionary in Uganda was medevacked here with a broken hip. He’s in the ER now. Can you go see him?” Dr. John Newell had just arrived at Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya after two days of travel from North Carolina when he received news of the missionary’s medical situation. The orthopedic surgeon immediately…
