Samaritan's Purse/World Medical Mission has been a huge
supporter of Kudjip Nazarene Hospital.
They are our main source of volunteer doctors coming and serving with
us, and have supplied us with 2 family practice doctors, 1 surgeon and 1
dentist through their Post Residency Program, with another surgeon and FP
doctor coming in 2017 to join us as well.
Outside of doctors, they have been big supporters of providing equipment
to us to help us run more effectively.
Not only have they helped out with surgery equipment, enabling us to
have better anesthesia machines, lights, instruments and more, but they have
also been a huge help to our dental clinic.
2 years ago our dental clinic opened with a mismatch of
equipment that worked, but not without much effort on Sheena, our dentist's
part. Instruments and equipment broke
regularly, supplies were hard to find and despite all of that Sheena has been
able to care for 100s of patients in these past 2 years.
Now thanks to the generosity of SP/WMM we have a new state
of the art dental clinic. Sheena Li is a
dentist, who has been serving with us for almost 2 years now. She has been able to transform dental care in
the Highlands of PNG just by being here and caring for the patients, in a
Christ honoring way. Patients from all
over the Highlands and beyond come to Kudjip to get dental care, the word has
gotten out and they are coming.
The work is too much for Sheena to do on her own, and so
over the past 2 years she has been training her assistants, Emelda and Clara,
to do assisting, cleanings, making the false teeth, taking Xrays and more. It has been great to watch these women grow
in their dental skills and work together to serve the patients who come.