International Healthcare Volunteer’s sixteenth medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, took 40 volunteers to Lekma Hospital in Accra, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital in Cape Coast, and Tamale Municipal Hospital in Tamale. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, IHCV volunteers cared for 703 patients, performing 82 major surgical procedures over 8 working days. International Healthcare Volunteers began in 2001 after Dr. James Aikins lost a family member to a postpartum hemorrhage in Ghana. Frustrated with the thought of losing a loved one to a condition easily treatable in the USA.