Re-imagining global health care, person by person, mission by mission - Healthy Debate

Jennifer Wilson writes on the decision to move across the world to offer medical services in Northern Ghana in her book, Grant Us Tomorrow.

Article Dec 6, 2022 by Jennifer Wilson Re-imagining global health care, person by person, mission by mission 0 Comments Share on: In 2004, as a family physician and mother of five young children, I had an epiphany. I realized that while I had been diligently focused on the needs of my family and community, it was time to offer what I could to my global neighbours. On my 37th birthday, I left my young family for two weeks and, together with a handful of health-care colleagues from Ontario, went to offer my services in Northern Ghana, one of Africa’s most impoverished regions. There, we encounte

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