It's not easy," Bwelle said.
Dr. Georges Bwelle is bringing free health care
There were no neurosurgeons in Cameroon," Georges Bwelle said.
The only problem they have is poverty," Bwelle said.
I am so
happy when I am doing this work," Bwelle said.
Jamef Bwelle was injured in a 1981 car accident near Yaounde,
Dr. Georges Bwelle is bringing free health care to rural
villages in Cameroon.
Bwelle and his team spend almost every weekend seeing hundreds of patients.
Jamef Bwelle was injured in a 1981 car accident near Yaounde,
Cameroon's capital.
Instead, Bwelle spent years escorting his father to overcrowded clinics and hospitals,
sanitizing equipment, Bwelle and his volunteers work into the early hours of Sunday morning.
They are beating drums all night to keep us awake and
continue our work," Bwelle said.
working as a hospital surgeon, Bwelle also works nights at private medical clinics around Yaounde.
Instead, Bwelle spent years escorting his father to overcrowded clinics and hospitals,
getting whatever treatment they could get.
Seeing his father and so many of his countrymen suffer, Bwelle was determined to do something about it.
With the group's generator lighting the operating
room and sanitizing equipment, Bwelle and his volunteers work into the early hours of Sunday morning.
In addition to holding these weekend clinics and working as a hospital surgeon, Bwelle also works nights at private medical clinics around Yaounde.
We have been able to scrub in on surgeries where we help blot blood away or hold tools for Dr. Bwelle," O'Malley said.
For medical and nursing students such as O'Malley,
who come from the United States and Europe to join Bwelle on his missions, it's a hands-on opportunity they would
never get at home.