Dr. Andrew Kirkpatrick – a well-known Calgary trauma surgeon, the Chief of Trauma for the Calgary Health Region and a professor of Surgery and Critical Care at the University of Calgary – is taking his expertise overseas to deliver free medical care onboard the world’s largest charity hospital ship.

Dr. Kirkpatrick will join the charity Mercy Ships this May in Togo, West Africa for two weeks onboard the Africa Mercy - a rail-ferry-turned-medical vessel. He will work alongside roughly 450 volunteers from upwards of 40 nationalities, each paying their own way to be there, to provide life-saving medical care for some of the world’s most impoverished people.