HIC News
Elsa Hicks successfully ran the London Marathon in April 2025 to raise vital funds for the charity
Well done and congratulations....
Mr Rob Hicks, Surgeon and Lead of several missions to Carpenter, has been awarded an MBE in the New years honours list in January 2024.
It is great to have the work of our charity recognised in theis way and thank you to everyone who has contributed to all the wonderful work that has been done along our journey. The people of Northern Ghana deserve all the help we can provide for them.
2023 - November Mission with Ghana Health Partners to Leyaata Hospital
90 Hernias in 9 days
We have just returned from Leyaata hospital after the November 2023 mission. Hernia International Carpenter partnering with our friends and partners from GRID in Canada to form the Ghana Health partners to support the development of services at the newly commissioned Leyaata Hospital.
This was a great success - with the focus on partnerships, mentoring and education.
HIC supported a surgical and anaesthesia team, Rob Hicks, Consultant surgeon, Karen Leyden, Consultant Anaesthetist, Nichola Patterson and Ebenezer Boateng from the Circle Hospital, Three Shires in Northampton.
Anne Smith, Consultant Paediatrician at Northampton General led a programme of education for midwives - Helping Babies Breathe.
Hernia International Carpenter – Donation
December 15, 2023
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Full Support Healthcare donated essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and healthcare supplies to a charitable organisation saving lives in Ghana last month.
Hernia International Carpenter is a registered charity supporting the provision of healthcare to the community of Carpenter and its surrounding region in Northern Ghana. The charity provides financial assistance, surgical operations, healthcare facilities and medical education – with a particular focus on those suffering with hernias and other related conditions.
Mr Robert Hicks, chair of charity Hernia International Carpenter and Lead Vascular Surgeon at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, approached Full Support Healthcare at the end of October requesting donations of Surgical Gowns and Reinforced Drapes for their November ‘mission’ – an annual trip to Ghana in which they bring life-saving medical supplies and perform as many Hernia operations as they can
Reporting back on the trip, Mr Roberts said:
“I would like to thank the Full Support team for their ongoing help for our surgical mission to Northern Ghana.
Your donation of gowns and drapes was so well received by the small surgical team that work in the newly commissioned operating theatres in the Leyaata Hospital in Carpenter.
You may remember your support in previous years. On those occasions, the team from Northamptonshire travelled to Ghana to perform hernia surgery in the most remote part of the country, in makeshift operating theatres. The community have been very busy since COVID and have built an amazing new hospital facility, supported by a Canadian charity called GRID – Ghana Rural Integrated Development.
The focus for our trip this year was teaching training and mentoring as well as Hernia surgery.
Once again we travelled from Accra up into the Northern part of Ghana for a 2 week mission. Our team was myself as the only surgeon, Dr Karen Leyden, Anaesthetist from Northampton General Hospital and Nichola Patterson and Ebenezer Boateng from Three shires Hospital. During he 9 days of operating we undertook 90 procedures and changed the lives of so many patients who had been unable to access healthcare for so many years. One of the patients we treated had been unable to walk and in a wheelchair for 4 years due to the size of his hernia