Ken Elliott and wife Jocelyn built a surgery for two million people from the ground up in Burkina Faso

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated January 18 2016 - 3:18pm, first published 8:44am
Dr Ken Elliott has devoted his life to helping the poor and sick of Burkina Faso.
Dr Ken Elliott has devoted his life to helping the poor and sick of Burkina Faso.

For 43 years, Australian couple Ken and Jocelyn Elliott built their hospital, brick by brick, bed by bed, a white surgery stark against the red dust of Burkina Faso in western Africa.

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