Subsidiarity is one of the four pillars of Catholic social teaching that calls us "to respond to the expressed felt needs" of the poor and marginalized. Over the past few weeks, Vicente has asked the health promoters to put their heads together to generate a list of ideas that they would like to develop further, and needs that they would like to see fulfilled. Here is a sampling.
Rehabilitate 90% of the cases of child malnutrition through talks, visits, awareness, follow-up, trainings and searching for appropriate technologies for the purpose of treating malnutrition.
Family planning.
Medicines for chronic diseases: epilepsy, asthma, anemia, fecal exams, prenatal visits, general medical consultations.
House visits for 'special children.'
Pap smear clinics.
...and, lastly, my personal favorite:
Visits to people with incurable diseases or people with scarce economic resources; through house visits, people feel happier; and also, monthly clinics because there are patients who have indeed been helped a lot and are recovering from their illness.
Quite a bit of work to do, eh?
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