Guinea is one of the least developed countries in the world.More than 60% live below the poverty line of $ 1 per day. Three quarters of the population is illiterate. Health care is substandard and priceless for most of the people.These portraits are from people with different kind of diseases who will maybe be helped or been helped by the Ngo Mercy Ships on the hospital ship ‘African Mercy’, that is docked in the capital Conakry. From simple operations as cataract, teeth problems, skin diseases to more delicate orthopaedic or tumor surgery are operated by surgeons , doctors and caring nurses who work voluntary on the hospital ship. Specified text
Makone Soumaoro, 30 years, goitre
‘I don’t have pain, but I am worried that my neck swells that much.I hope that it is not a tumor, because I am a housewife and my man and three children need me.’