Project Description
CHANNEL 5 – 1 X 60 minutes
Critical Surgery- Saving Lives
A group of leading British surgeons and nurses are taking time out from their day jobs in the NHS to spend weeks together living and working in Africa. But this is no holiday. They will perform around 40 life saving surgeries on children and young adults from the poorest parts of rural Ethiopia.
Working with the charity Facing Africa, they will come face to face with some of the most challenging medical cases they will ever encounter in their whole career in the UK – including that of Zinash Ali who has a large 3 kilo parasitic tumor on her bottom jaw that is slowly killing her. Will they be able to remove the tumor without killing her? This film follows the facial surgeons as they battle to save her life.
