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Lighichean a' toirt taic air Taobh Siar Afraga. Documentary series following surgery ship African Mercy. This episode sees three children in surgery to help heal their burn scars.

Tha long ospadail sh貌nraichte a tha a' toirt seachad obair-lannsa aig muir, a' d猫anamh air na daoine as bochda ann an Afraga. Chan eil aca ach aon bhliadhna airson an obair do-dh猫anta seo a dh猫anamh - c霉ram a' thoirt do dhaoine nach fhaigh e ann an 脿ite sam bith eile. As d猫idh tr矛 bliadhna bhon chaidh tri霉ir chloinne a losgadh gu dona, tha an t-slighe leigheis aca a' t貌iseachadh a-rithist le obair-lannsa. A dh' aindeoin seo, bidh iad m矛osan mus fhaigh iad an neart aca air ais. Cuideachd, tha duine 貌g a' faighinn obair-lannsa airson cnapan m貌ra a thoirt air falbh, ach le aon de na cuislean aige a' spreadhadh, a bheil e a' dol a mhaireadh tron ch霉is?

A unique hospital ship offering life-saving surgery sets sail for the poorest of the poor in Africa. It has just one year to do the impossible - to provide the care these people cannot get any other way.
Years after three children were severely burnt, healing their scars on the Africa Mercy begins with surgery - but it will take months of therapy to give them back their strength, and hopefully their innocence. A young man receives the gift of free surgery to have his large disfiguring tumours removed. But after an emergency blow-out of one his arteries, will he make it through the surgery?

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