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Rome (Fides Service) - Promote globalisation of hospitality at a particular time in human history: this is the challenge launched by the Order of the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers during a meeting at the end of a long course of formation which brought together the top management Order.
The St John of God Hospitaller Brothers have a history of more than 500 years of hospitality which needs to be reinvented every day to meet the changing needs of the sick, the outcasts and the poor.
The meeting was held in Rome at the General House on the 8 and 9 June with a programme of appointments to reflect on future plans and to examine the present activity in the field of health care.
“We are looking at the future of the Order in the new millennium - said Superior General Brother Pascual Piles - at the service of the person who suffers and is in a situation of need and asks our help to rebuild his personal project. There will probably be areas and forms of actuation on the part of the Order which require radical change for which we must be ready if we wish to be present in the third millennium offering concrete and modern medical service in the light of the many changes on the scene of health care ”.
Treat, cure, rehabilitate, tasks which are always relative for the Order founded some 500 years ago present with 300 Brother working in 45 countries Every day 40,000 collaborators religious, doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers assist an average of 35,000 patients with the help of about 300,000 benefactors. (AP) (8/6/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe:26 Parole:279)
