Over the last year in Liberia, hundreds of children have come down with measles — a disease that is preventable with a simple vaccination.
Rick Sacra
Dr. Rick Sacra is a family physician and medical missionary at the ELWA Hospital in Paynesville, Liberia. He has served in Liberia since 1995 with the non-denominational Christian mission group SIM, which founded and operates ELWA. In the U.S., he teaches residents at the Family Health Center of Worcester in Massachusetts. Since recovering from Ebola in 2014, Dr. Sacra has returned to Liberia periodically to serve at ELWA.