Medicine International (MI) physicians, Michael Mouri and Mark Stinson, we
re asked to help set up a new hospital, recently completed in Boadi, Ghana, West Africa. They functioned as full-time clinic/inpatient doctors in a rural Ghanaian hospital diagnosing and treating patients with various tropical diseases. Drs. Stinson and Mouri joined Dr.Steve Maron, the medical director, in assisting him in his busy schedule running the hospital. They primarily provided obstetric, gynecology, anesthesia, and general surgery expertise.
Dr. Steven Maron, one of the initial members of Medicine International was initially asked to go to West Africa by Medicin San Frontiers (MSF) to completely set up a newly constructed hospital funded with donations from numerous humanitarian groups in the United States. He was charged with staffing, setting protocols, overseeing medical care in this 50-plus bed hospital. Dr. Maron remained in Ghana with his wife who was also a certified ultrasononographer for over 6 months. During that time she gave birth to their first child.