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Mamprugu Throws Festival for their Unicycling Champ
Trey gets a “super celebration” at the king’s palace for his unicycling wins.
Trey Wins Medals for Ghana at Unicycling World Championship
Trey took two unicycling medals for Ghana – the nations’s first! We couldn’t be more proud of him for all his hard work and perseverance!
🥈 30m Wheel Walk Race (15-16yr Male)
🥉 50m One-Foot Race (15-16yr Male)
MedAdvance 2022
Heidi and our friend Dr. Nastia Furtak attended the medical missions conference hosted by the IMB in Virginia. Heidi was a speaker at the event.
Hiking to the Gambaga Rapids with Volunteers
We take a group of volunteers down the Gambaga Escarpment to see the White Volta River’s powerful rapids.
Malrotation in Pregnancy
Malrotation or volvulus begins in the womb when intestines are not correctly positioned within the abdomen and bands of scar tissue are formed that can cause issues later in life.
Juvenile Hypertrophy of the Breast
Performing a bilateral mastectomy on a 17-year-old Ghanaian girl with a rare condition.
A Legacy of Physical & Spiritual Healing
William created a video about Dr. George Faile III and his family’s legacy at BMC to accompany this article about the upcoming MedAdvance conference in Virginia (which Heidi will be speaking at).
Thumb Injury & Repair
A month after a young man had injured his thumb in a machine which fills “pure water sachets,” he came to BMC. He had been dressing his wounds at another hospital, but he had not seen any improvement. The skin, soft tissue and tendon on the nail side of his thumb overlying the knuckle joint […]