A Vatican official welcomed the launch of a new facility by the Philippine Church dubbed as the “Center for Humanization in Health” in the midst of the pandemic.
“I commend you for this timely and noble venture,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development.
The cardinal issued the statement during the launching of the center initiated by the Order of the Ministers of the Infirm, also known as the Camillians, and the Episcopal Commission on Health Care of the Catholic bishops’ conference on April 10.
“[I]t is a clear manifestation of your readiness to embrace this responsibility of promoting the culture of humanization,” said Cardinal Turkson.
“I am pleased to note that the launching of the St. Camillus Center for Humanization in Health comes as an awaited response to the call of the Holy Father,” he said.
In his message, the Vatican official stressed the “need to humanize” especially the health care sector because of its “vulnerability.”
“Humanization on health care would be define as a state of well-being involving affection, dedication, respect for the other, that is, to consider the person as a complete and complex being,” said Cardinal Turkson.
He lauded the Camillians in the Philippines for “taking up a challenge” with the bishops “to swim against the tide in order to continue rendering the charism and passion of St. Camillus.”
The cardinal called on everyone to give “more heart in your hands, more love in your actions, for love is the highest standard of care for Christians.”
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is a dicastery of the Roman curia that aims to address issues regarding “migrants, those in need, the sick, the excluded and marginalized, the imprisoned and the unemployed, as well as victims of armed conflict, natural disasters, and all forms of slavery and torture.”
Source: Licas Philippines
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