Catholic Hospitals Throughout the World Try Collaboration
The Catholic hospital Bambino Gesu, in Rome.
At their meeting in the Vatican from November 16 to 18, 2017, organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, 150 major Catholic hospitals from five continents decided to group together on one exchange platform.
The ambition of this embryonic network: to ultimately assemble the 116,000 medical establishments directed by the Church on one single “operational platform of exchange and collaboration”, announced the International Confederation of Catholic Health Care Institutions – CIISAC – in its statement.
The idea behind this project is to implement efficient collaboration “between major institutions like the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome down to the smallest little outback clinic”, explained Dennis Redmont, member of the CIISAC.
The goal is to reduce the inequalities in health and access to health care throughout the world. While progress has been made in this field, the CIISAC nonetheless points out that 300,000 women die in childbirth every year, that over 6 million children die before the age of 6, and that 1.7 billion people are in need of treatment for a tropical disease.
Sources: news.va / La Croix / FSSPX.News
