News Archive

7 August 2010

Dr Hilary Edgecombe, a consultant anaesthetist from Oxford UK, has come to Zambia to work as a volunteer anaesthetist for Mercy Flyers.  She has been flown out to Mukinge Mission hospital where she is now providing a desperately needed anaesthetic service as their anaesthetist has gone on furlough.

4 June 2010

The founders, Craig & Rae, have had a successful visit to the office in Norfolk, England.  We were all very pleased to see each other and revitalise relationships. 

1 April 2010

Africare have offered to collaborate with Mercy Flyers to recruit and follow up our patients suffering with fistulae in the East of the country.  As a result we have had a boost in the numbers attending our outreaches for surgery. 

19 January 2010

Dr Craig Oranmore-Brown has been invited by the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka to teach Critical Care Medicine to the doctors and nurses in the ICU.  

25 November 2009

In November Mercy Flyers partnered with the UNFPA to carry out a combined fistula surgery outreach in the town of Mansa in Luapula province, Northern Zambia. We see this as an exciting development