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"I truly believe in this mission. It has changed my life"
Sharon Green Golden has recently returned from a medical mission to two Bangladesh villages as part of a surgical team consisting of a general surgeon, Dr. Jennifer O’Neil, and a gynecologist, Dr. Jaffre, and 11 other members. Over a ten-day period, the team performed 115 surgeries across two villages. In some cases, women had been ostracized because of their medical condition and literally put out of their homes to live with cows. Today, those women have better lives because of the surgery.
A Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST), Sharon is an expert in health care instrumentation sterilization. Since the villages have no sterilizing equipment, she hand washed all the surgical instruments and then boiled them in a pot of water.
Originally started by Dr. Sobhan as a way to give back to his native Bangladesh, the missions provide life-saving surgeries for villagers who would never be able to afford them. Sharon has been a part of the project since 1998 and has participated in six missions to the destitute country. She says, “Bangladesh has a caste system and the people of the villages are extremely poor. The children are not given an education so they have no way to change their circumstances. They have no expectations. We helped the patients have better lives today than they would have ever had. They are very grateful and appreciative. I truly believe in this mission. It’s changed my life”
Sharon Green Golden, Manager of Sterile Process, Mary Immaculate Hospital
