EUROPE/GEORGIA - Redemptor hominis Catholic social and healthcare Centre offers free diagnosis and medical treatment as well as homecare and food and clothes for about 300 poor people

Friday, 13 April 2007

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Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides) - To address the healthcare and social needs of poor people in Tbilisi in 1998 Redemptoris Hominis medical centre was opened with the support of the then president of Georgia, Edvard Shevardnadze, Caritas Italy and the Holy See.
The Centre, run by the Camillian Fathers, offers free services of diagnosis and treatment and supplies poor people homecare and food and clothes.
In almost ten years of service the Redemptor Hominis Centre has become an important point of reference. It is funded by donations from abroad sent by the Camillian Fathers, Catholic charities and generous individual donors.
The centre has its own pharmacy and several departments: dental care, maternity and child care, general medicine, cardiology, dermatology, ear nose and throat specialists, neurology, neuropsychiatry, oculist, laboratory tests and scanning. The centre also sends volunteers on home visits led by a Camillian sister. Every day a bus goes on a round visiting the sick unable to reach the centre while the volunteers clean, wash, serve food and take away garbage.
The centre is at Temka, Nazaladevi district a suburb of Tbilisi, serves a population of about 400,000. The director is the head of the Camillian delegation in Georgia Father Ivan Martini. The Camillian community is also involved in pastoral care for Catholics in two poor mountain villages Khisabavra and Vargavi, situated about 250 km. from the capital. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 13/4/2007, Righe:37; Parole:393)