At Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, Dr. Lydiah Ngigi recently described caring for a critically ill child whose family had traveled all the way from Tanzania seeking help. “They do not have money,” she explained. “They do not have any insurance at the moment, and you can see that the child is really sick.” Those moments are why […]
Training doctors in Africa takes time. In many communities, delays in training mean delays in care. Dr. Paul Opare-Addo has seen how much difference that time can make. “Two years can make a huge difference in the lives of patients and communities.” Why Training Matters The National Scholars Program helps physicians begin residency sooner. That […]
After years of serving patients and training doctors in Kenya, Dr. Paul Opare-Addo has learned something that often goes unseen. Caring for healthcare missionaries sustains the work. “Serving on the field can pull you in so deeply that you don’t even realize how exhausted you’ve become.” That reality affects not only the physician, but their […]
In Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, MedSend-supported surgeon Dr. Jacques Ebhele is treating patients during the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC while many around him are living in fear. “This is my country, my town, and my people catching the disease and dying including nurses and doctors,” Jacques wrote to us this past week. He […]
After 60 Minutes, They Stopped In a rural operating room in Papua New Guinea, a 45-year-old woman — we’ll call her L — went into sudden cardiac arrest following surgery for early cervical cancer. Her heart slipped into ventricular fibrillation. The team shocked her five times. They administered medications. They searched for reversible causes. For […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT MILL, S.C. — MedSend recently hosted the inaugural Mission Leadership Retreat, bringing together the heads of ten of the largest mission sending organizations for a first-of-its-kind gathering focused on collaboration, strategic innovation, and shared challenges across the missions landscape. Led by MedSend CEO Rick Allen, the retreat was designed to create space for executive leaders to think together, learn from […]
Grace Macharia remembers what it felt like to be the patient. “As a child, I was in and out of hospitals… I saw the frustration my parents were having to go through.” That experience shaped her future. By secondary school, Grace had made a decision to become a doctor. Today, Grace is one of MedSend’s National Scholars in Kenya, training in her fourth […]
When the Rains Come, the Work Doesn’t Stop In Sierra Leone, the rainy season makes travel harder, clinics busier, and outreach more complex. Yet this is exactly where MedSend-supported physician Dr. Geoffrey Moses continues to serve, integrating health and discipleship in Sierra Leone in ways that reach both body and soul. In a country where maternal mortality remains among the highest in the world […]
The MedSend National Scholars Program is helping train doctors across Africa to serve in places where healthcare is urgently needed. On a recent trip to Kenya, we had the opportunity to visit Kabarak University and record an interview with Dr. Belyse Arakaza, a graduate of the program currently working at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, whose story reflects both resilience […]
Twelve years on the mission field changes how you understand calling. For Melissa Sandberg, it revealed something essential: medical missionary longevity depends on intentional support, not endurance alone. A Demanding Calling, Lived Daily Melissa served at Mukinge Hospital in Zambia, caring for patients in the pediatric and female surgical wards. Her days were filled with critically ill patients, long […]
