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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Fernande Marie Pelletier</p>
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<p>Dr. Fernande Pelletier went to Africa in 1961 as a Medical Mission Sister.
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A graduate of the Georgetown University Medical School, she was thirty years old
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when she left home to begin her service.
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Her destination was the city of Berekum, Ghana, where she has now lived and served for over forty years.
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Throughout her service, Dr. Pelletier has had to overcome language, technological, and cultural barriers.
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She learned the local dialect, Twi, so she could talk directly with her patients,
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and the midwives and nurses she has trained over the years.
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She immerses herself in the local culture, trying to understand the ways
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that her patients think about their illnesses.
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Her dedication to her work has been celebrated by the Ghanian Government,
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who awarded Dr. Pelletier the Grand Medal for outstanding rural medical work.
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In addition to medical supplies, Dr. Fernande Pelletier provides AIDS education,
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home visits to new mothers, and training for new medical health workers.
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Using the Holy Family Hospital Outreach Vehicle for travel, she reaches remote areas without hospitals and doctors,
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caring for her patients’ needs in any way she can.
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Dr. Pelletier respects the spiritual beliefs of her patients and concentrates on relieving their illnesses or injuries.
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She explains, “By our action, we express our religious belief.
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Not ’I heal you and now you join my religion’...
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But by action; by healing people out of love and making them whole. That, I think, speaks louder.”
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Dr. Pelletier continues to serve the goals of the Medical Mission Sisters,
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making good health care accessible to poor patients in remote areas.</p>
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