{"id":2087,"date":"2006-10-01T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2016-01-02T03:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T03:27:58","slug":"saving-children-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2006\/10\/01\/saving-children-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Children In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/031_31-e1451705258349.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2088\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2088\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/031_31-e1451705258349.jpg\" alt=\"031_31\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Erica Horton is a medical student at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) who attended INMED\u2019s Exploring Medical Missions Conference in May 2006. \u201cGod had already laid on my heart ideas about going into medical missions. During the INMED conference I listened to the presentation by a UMKC student who served in Cameroon. I\u2019ve always been interested in going to Africa because of the vast need they have in all areas of medicine, especially preventative. I felt a strong urge to go there \u2013 to serve people who do not have the means to help themselves. I believe that\u2019s why we are here on this Earth\u2026 to respect the value of human life, and to give whatever we can to serve God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Erica\u2019s altruistic vision came into focus when she enrolled in the\u00a0<a title=\"Diplomas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/diplomas\/\">INMED International Medicine Diploma Program<\/a>. INMED arranged for her to study with American physicians during August and September 2006 at the Nilerigu Baptist Medical Center in northern Ghana. The Baptist Medical Centre (BMC) ministry was founded by an American physician, George Faile II, half a century ago, and today the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.failefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faile Foundation<\/a>\u00a0provides many valuable services and funding for the Baptist Medical Center. The Nilerigu BMC is a full-scale hospital and clinic whose services include surgery, dental care, TB treatment, HIV care and management of obstetrical emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Erica passionately describes her experience:<em>\u00a0\u201cI saw so many children die from malaria, pneumonia and dehydration\u2026often 5 or 6 a day. We worked extremely hard to try and save them, giving IV fluids and medications. We prayed for them, too. We prayed with their families, we prayed before surgeries. I saw American surgeons bow their heads and grasp the hands of their patients before anesthesia. How often would I ever see that in the United States? I came to realize the importance of prayer \u2013 how it brings peace of mind. When we had provided all we could to save a child and asked God to intervene, then we knew we\u2019d done everything possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Erica Horton is a medical student at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) who attended INMED\u2019s Exploring Medical Missions Conference in May 2006. \u201cGod had already laid on my heart ideas about going into medical missions. During the INMED conference I listened to the presentation by a UMKC student who served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-training-sites-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}