GP sells Manchester home and moves his family to live on a hospital ship in Sierra Leone where his wife teaches PE while his 3 daughters attend school on board - and says he can't see them ever going back Doctor from moved his family to work on hospital ship in Sierra Leone READ MORE: Mother slams female GP who 'made grotesque faces' and told her to stop breastfeeding her daughter after a year because it's 'too much' By Alice Wade Published: 11:14 BST, 22 May 2024 | Updated: 11:19 BST, 22 May 2024 e-mail View comments A British GP has moved his entire family out of their home and Manchester to start a new life living on a hospital ship 4,000 miles away in Sierra Leone. Simon Latham, 39, and his wife Amélie, 43, first applied to work in a hospital ship several years ago, hoping to lend their help to the less fortunate. After not hearing anything to begin with, the couple forgot about their application and years passed before they got a call out of the blue asking them to move onto the ship with their three daughters - Zara, 14, Héloïse, 12, and Sophie, 10.
Within two months the family, had packed up their lives and put their four-bed house in Sale, Greater Manchester, on the market. A British GP, pictured one from the left, has moved his entire family, pictured, out of their home and Manchester to start a new life to live on a hospital ship 4,000 miles away in Sierra Leone Simon Latham, pictured, is a 39-year-old GP who previously lived in Sale in Greater Manchester Simo.