The lower decks of the eight-deck Africa Mercy are a modern hospital with five operating theaters, an Intensive Care Unit, an Ophthalmology unit, a CT scanner, x-ray, laboratories, and a recovery ward with beds for . In addition to the ship's lab capabilities, ship physicians can consult with pathologists in the U.S. via satellite communications."Hope Floats," interview with Johannes Bernbeck, Ability, accessed 12 September 2011, pp. 26-29.
