MISSION

Ghana 2024

Highlights
Mission Goals

Operation International's Neuro Team successfully completed their first mission to Ghana in April 2024. The team performed 28 complex and life-changing surgeries in just one week in the country.

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Team members

Sarah Jernigan
Surgeon
Rebecca DeCarlo
MD
Ming Li
CRNA
Melissa Johnson
PA
Lori Barazza
RN
Susan Corcoran
RN
Michaela Hill
CST
Abby Sanders
CRNA

Mission details

The team's inaugural trip to Ghana included several complex surgeries, many of which were performed on young children. These included a 1-year-old baby boy who had untreated hydrocephalus, or a build up of fluids inside the brain that caused his head to continue to grow as an infant. Team Neuro was able to place a shunt that will help divert the fluid and decrease his head size. The team also repaired an occipital encephalocele, and a case of myelomeningocele, the most serious type of spina bifida.

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