Team fulfills dream in Ghana medical mission

Five area nurses went on a medical mission to help provide life-altering surgery for poor Ghana citizens and found their own lives profoundly changed by the experience.

“I don’t take anything I have for granted anymore. You begin to appreciate something as simple as a blanket or sheet,” said Juanita “Nita” Combs, a nurse anesthetist.

The nurses were called the Dream Team because it was the dream of Dr. Michael Obeng, head of plastic surgery and reconstructive services at St. Elizabeth’s Boardman Medical Pavilion, to lead a medical mission to his native Ghana.

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