An African Mission

Wm. Craig Sanford, M.D.

Muslim Africa

is shown in dark

green

Maps of Ghana, West Africa

Dr. Seth Anyomi,

Founder and President of

African Christian Mission

with wife, Tina and their

four children

ACM Headquarters in Accra, Ghana

With Seth and Raymond from ACM

Home Church, Accra Ghana

Sunday Worship

My Quarters at Manna Mission Hospital

Dr. Duininck’s Mansion at Manna Mission

Main Entrance to Manna Mission Hospital

The “Ambulance”

Isaac, 38 year old with coma and intermittent right-sided seizures of uncertain etiology.

Negative past medical history, except for alcoholism.

Taking Isaac across town to the CT scanner via the “ambulance”

Emergency entrance to

Korlebu Teaching Hospital in Accra

Patient expired

Autopsy showed cerebral malaria

Mr. Lawani, 58 year old male presents with shortness of breath and decreased right-sided breath sounds.

Chest x-ray obtained two days after admission.

Thoracentesis on Mr. Lawani

One quart of pure pus

Forgot the mask.

OOPS!(Now for my PPD)

Post Chest Tube

Drs. Mitch and Rosie

Post abscess drainage

Ebenezer Boadu, recovering from sepsis and pneumonia

Endured the pneumonia and the trombone concert

The Pied Piper at Manna Mission on Sunday

Sunday services at Manna Mission Church

The Band

The

Anastasis

in Cotonou,

Benin

West

Africa

Docked at Cotonou harbor, Benin

Session on the aft deck with Colin from South Africa and Dave from New Orleans.

Monument to the slaves taken from Benin to the new world

A day on the beach with Ian McColl, missionary surgeon from Guys Hospital, London. Ian is also in the House of Lords, Great Britain.

another slave monument with Jim, a dentist from Ireland, and my cabin-mate from the mercy ship.

“Man Down”

A mock drill onboard the Anatasis

First patient on the Mercy Ship

Prudence, a six-month old

with an encephalocele

Child in moribund condition

Notice eye findings on the patient

Brigette (on my left), age 12, post surgical tumor removal.

Small child (on my right) recovering from malaria

Brigette arrived at the ship’s screening at near death with airway compromise.

Procedure took 14 hours.

Facial X-rays of Brigette

Brigette on my right

Patient on my left undergoing skin grafts for severe neck burns

Cavilla was found in Avagbodji, a stilt village.

Tumor was believed to be either retinoblastoma or rhabdomyosarcoma.

Initially the patient did well post-surgery and after chemo.

Later was treated for cerebral malaria and recovered

However, patient fell from her bed in the early morning and was found comotose.

In surgery receiving Burr holes in the cranium to look for a subdural hematoma

No subdural was found

Post procedure, patient had a cardiac arrest and expired.

Cause of death was felt to be pseudomonal sepsis and/or recurrence of malaria

Man with massive goiter of the thyroid gland

Thyroid specimen

Jelili Wahali, 22 years old, with infected burn grafts and encephalopathic, bizarre behavior

Recurrent episodes of dystonia and opisthothonus felt to be from tetanus.

Patient believed illness resulted from a curse put on him by the village witchdoctor.

Child with cancrum oris post-surgery for lip and nose grafts.

Pre-op evaluation for a cleft palate

Six month old Muslim child from Sister’s of Charity, severely ill with tender, firm, distended abdomen felt to be typhoid fever. Patient had a full recovery.

Examination on a former voodoo witch

A voodoo fetish by the road on the way to Hevier, an internationally well known voodoo village (Benin)

The Yovo (white people) fetish on the road to Hevier

The airplane fetish

A little bit of Paris in Africa

A hut in the voodoo village, Hevier

My tour guide in the voodoo village

Illicit photo of a fetish

Public health lecture to villagers, Hevier

Public health clinic

The clinic in Hevier

Child with supraorbital abscess

Incision and drainage of abscess

Patient with clinical diagnosis of small bowel obstruction. Abdominal incisions from treatment by voodoo doctor.

One-year old twins. The one I am holding is moribund from nutritional deficiency and probably malaria.

Concert after the clinic

Welcoming ceremony from tribal chiefs in the remote, mountainous village, Amedzofe in Ghana

Market place in Amedzofe with chief’s palace and Mt. Gemi in the background.

View from outside guest quarters in Amedzofe

View from the Roper House of downtown Amedzofe

Downtown Amedzofe

Cemetery for 19th century German missionaries, Amedzofe

Open air cathedral in Amedzofe

The Presbyterian Church, Amedzofe

The ACM Clinic, Amedzofe

Calling in the patients

Clinic waiting room

Young girl with a one year history of skin lesion

Follow up visit for a 10 year old girl.

Seen in clinic a few days earlier with severe acute undifferentiated febrile illness.

Physical findings included loud systolic heart murmur and a very large spleen.

Wound infection from accidental machete injury

The labor suite

The delivery suite

Sun setting over Lake Volta. My journey’s end