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particular Nigerians we need to hire to run the institutions .”
The project is now collecting additional equipment for classrooms and is working with several universities to pick up their curriculum for a nursing and physician residency program to start mentoring and teaching specific classes .
“ We might be on to a neat little model where even though you ’ re a hundred miles from a sizeable city or the next nearest hospital , you can offer excellence in training and medical care due to technology ,” Campion said .
The medical complex is now seeing about 1,800 patients per month for outpatient services and doing about 75 major surgeries per month , many of which are life-saving .
“ The enthusiasm on the ground in Nigeria is remarkable ,” Campion said . “ It ’ s a community project , not a Don Campion project . We have received hundreds of hours of free labor from the residents . When we were tearing down buildings , moving equipment , and cleaning up properties , the local villagers showed up to help .”
Having a vision and figuring out the best place to start something small that would later blossom into something incredible seems to be how Don Campion operates .
“ I was fascinated with airplanes right from a young age ,” Campion said .
His father was Canadian and his mother was American , so he ended up returning to Canada for flight training and airplane maintenance education .
“ Then I came to Florida , like many teenagers at the time because Fort Lauderdale was the go-to place for the college crowd ,” Campion said . “ While on vacations from Toronto , I would stop at different airports and I saw more private aviation in Florida than in all of Canada . It ’ s a crossroads with wonderful
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