Junior doctor James Arkley, 23, is packing his bags ahead of a trip to the Ghanaian capital of Accra as part of a team of medics looking to boost the West African country's heart surgery programme.
James works at the RVI and is the most junior member of the team comprising a number of consultants - including Ghanaian-born Enoch Akowuah who is one of the project leaders.
Enoch is a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust and he led a team back to his birthplace of Kumasi in 2019. There they helped train doctors out there to fit pacemakers and carried out some surgery themselves.
