AFRICA/BENIN - Four wards, two rooms for medical staff, two store rooms for medicines and food: Camillians hope to open new hospital for people suffering from AIDS

Davougon (Fides Service) - The Camillan community in Davougon, Benin, said that if the promised funds arrive it hopes to open a new hospital for people with AIDS before the end of the year. The new Centre will have four wards, two rooms for medical staff two storerooms for food and medicines. They also hope to improve conditions at the little children’s hospital where children, sometimes two or three, and mothers sleep in the same bed.
The community is composed of four Religious, two are French, Fr. Christian director and bursar of the St Camillus Centre and Fr Bernard in charge of the dispensary the parish and the community and two local men from Benin, Fr. Florence Faury and Brother Cyprien Laly. (AP) (2/6/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:13 Parole:149)