Abena was a 25-year-old with a large inguinal hernia. "I thought I had a big sickness. The swelling on my right side was paining me, especially when I tried to work or carry my children. It kept getting bigger, and I didn’t know what it was. Nobody could tell me. Nobody could help me. I felt like I was going to die.
When the American doctors came, I said to myself, “Maybe God has brought my help.” Dr. Freed and his team operated on me. They repaired the swelling with a special sheet(mesh), and now I feel like myself again. I thank God, and I thank them with all my heart."
Morowa was a 17-year-old who presented with incontinence of urine and stool. "Two years ago, I was a happy married woman. I had a good husband, and I was expecting a baby. When my labour started, I was in my village with the woman who normally delivered all our babies. But this time, the baby did not come. It died before it could be born, and after that, I was left leaking urine day and night and stool daily. I lost my husband, I left my village, and I had nowhere to belong.
When the American doctors (Drs. Kwon & Freed) came, they gave me my life back. The work of their hands changed my life forever."
