“As disciples of Christ, we make his compassion our own, which led Him to the heart of human drama;” ROL No. 5/2
Health ministry is one of the greatest opportunities the Church has today for sharing the gospel. We realize that there is a spiritual as well as a physical and a mental dimension to healthy and integrated living. Thus, the main thrust and orientation of our health ministry are on the following:
- Offering holistic health through health education chiefly to mothers and children
- Conducting medical camps and mass health awareness programmes
- Teaching them some preventive measures
- Building sanitary latrines with the help of donors
- Training local health promoters
- Running mobile clinics, dispensaries, hospitals and nursing school; offering palliative care
- Alternative medicine chiefly homeopathy, herbal medicines and magneto therapy
- Serving as nursing auxiliary
- Serving and caring for the senior sisters at EHPAD – Convalescent home
Always keeping in mind our priority to the cause of the poor and the needy in rural areas. In India, East Africa and Congo-Cameroon we run our own hospitals, health care centres and dispensaries. In Peru, our Sisters are working in a diocesan Polyclinic and hospital. In Colombia, we have a very reputed reflexology centre.
