Season 1

In a harbor in Western Africa, a large cruise ship has moored. On it are dozens of skilled doctors, nurses and support staff. They are here to offer live saving medical help to people who will not get another chance. For one year there will be state of the art surgery available for free, but people will have to hurry its a once in a lifetime offer. At the end of the year, the ship will go.

Surgery commences for three children, years after they were severely burnt. It'll take months of therapy for them to get their strength back.

Two patients are treated for deforming facial tumours and, while treating a baby with a cleft lip, Dr Gary is reunitied with a former patient.

20-year-old Elisabeth struggles with a large facial tumour in Benin, a region where some believe curses cause monstrous deformities.

20-year-old Elisabeth struggles with a large facial tumour in Benin, a region where some believe curses cause monstrous deformities.

The screening team head into remote areas of Benin, where they treat a young girl with bowed legs and a return patient whose tumour has grown back.

Mercy Ships' volunteers are faced with an Ebola scare, as surgeons give hope to a young girl with extremely disfigured legs due to her severe malnutrition; a teenage boy can't touch his toes due to a severe burns injury.

In a nine-hour surgery, a mother has a crushing tumour removed from her neck, while her kids Riana and Joanes benefit from the life-changing intervention of Benin's Ponseti clinic.