The film is thirteen seconds. A child sits on a hospital cot at Kibuli Medical Centre, a gauze dressing around her head, a stained shirt, a cannula on her hand. She says hello. She says she got an accident. She says: please pray for me.
Medical ministry at Mercy For Life Africa is not a ribbon-cutting. It is a consultation, a test, a night on a ward, a bill a family in the slums cannot meet. We take the sick to hospital and we stay.
We do not use this film as a spectacle. We keep it behind a care-gate, and we keep her words. A child who can ask for prayer is a child someone came for.
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Please pray for me
At Kibuli Medical Centre a child with a dressed head looks into the camera. She says she got an accident. She asks for prayer. The drip stand is behind her. Medical mercy is a bill paid, and a visit that stays until morning.