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In 2008 , Don took his wife to see where he had grown up . Many friends he spent time with during summer vacations away from his boarding school still lived in the village .
“ I hadn ’ t been back for about 20 years , so a lot had changed ,”
Campion said . “ No missionaries had been there in some time , and the hospital was now just a clinic .”
Campion returned to Florida and to running Banyan Air . But he felt something drawing him back to Egbe .
“ I thought , what if we were to revitalize the hospital ?
It was such a lighthouse and nothing ever replaced it , so people in that area were passing away needlessly due to medical emergencies , malaria , and other common diseases . The only other option was a government hospital hundreds of miles away over bad roads .”
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