As a relative of this 12-Year-old niece of mine (James Ann Guianan) who died
from a simple doctor's findings of high fever/flu, how incompetent and irresponsible is
the resident physician (medical team in general) at Biri Distric Hospital who
attended to her?
Is it the type of expertise that they could
provide to those who are financially incapacitated, that a patient who has been
confined in approximately one week would die later after being diagnosed of a
flu/high fever?
Are they just satisfied by receiving their
monthly remuneration without recompensing it with what they’ve been getting
from the taxes of the people, in terms of monthly perks and remuneration?
Does the population of
patients in this hospital outnumber the medical team for them to perform below
par, taking into consideration that they’re compensated well I presume through
the taxes of the public.
If that’s how negligent are
these medical team, I suppose that these deprived deserve to be provided with
adept personnel who could save lives especially these impoverished.
These people are deprived of many things because
of paucity, and it’s exasperating to witness that these “so-called stewards”
could contribute an unbearable burden to their already-heavy millstone.
Someone
from the hospital communicated the day after
The day after I posted this write up, somebody from
the hospital reached me out clarifying their sides about the incident. Although I appreciated the effort, there has
been no closure yet that may appease me personally because she just read my
question in almost an hour without answering my question as to what was really
the physician's diagnosis. You may read
our conversation:
The Catholic Teaching of
Loving For the Poor
God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor
and rebukes those who turn away from them: “Give to him who begs from you, do
not refuse him who would borrow from you;” “you received without pay, give
without pay” (Matthew 5:42; 10:8). It is
by what they have done for the poor that Jesus Christ will recognize His chosen
ones (Matthew 25:31-36).When "the poor have the good news preached to
them,” it is the sign of Christ's presence.(Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:18) – Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC
2443
“The Church's love for the poor . . . is a part
of her constant tradition.” This love is inspired by the Gospel of the
Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of His concern for the poor (Luke 6:20-22, Matthew 8:20; Mark 12:41-44). Love for the poor is even one of the motives
for the duty of working so as to “be able to give to those in need “(Ephesians 4:28). It extends not only to material poverty but also to the many
forms of cultural and religious poverty.- Catechism of the Catholic
Church CCC 2444
Love for the poor is irreconcilable with excessive love of riches or their self-centered use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you. (James 5:1-6) - Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 2444
St. John Chrysostom dynamically evokes this: “Not
to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them
of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.” The demands of justice
must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to
be offered as a gift of charity:”
St. Gregory the Great says that attending to the
needs of those in want is giving them what is theirs, not ours. More than
performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice - Catechism of the
Catholic Church CCC 2446
The works of mercy are charitable actions by
which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily
necessities (Isaiah 58:6-7; Hebrew 13:3). Instructing, advising, consoling,
comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs
patiently. The corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the
hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and
imprisoned, and burying the dead(Matthew 25:31-46). Among all these, giving alms to the poor is
one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice
pleasing to God: ( Tobit 4:5-11; Sirach
17:22; Mathew 6:2-4) - Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 2447
He who has two coats, let him share with him who
has none and he who has food must do likewise (Luke 3:11). But give for alms
those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you (Luke
11:41). If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of
you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving
them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? (James 2:15-16; 1 John
3:17)
“In its various forms - material deprivation,
unjust oppression, physical and psychological illness and death - human misery
is the obvious sign of the inherited condition of frailty and need for
salvation in which man finds himself as a consequence of original sin. This
misery elicited the compassion of Christ the Savior, who willingly took it upon
himself and identified himself with the least of his brethren. Hence, those who
are oppressed by poverty are the object of a preferential love on the part of
the Church which, since her origin and in spite of the failings of many of her
members, has not ceased to work for their relief, defense, and liberation
through numerous works of charity which remain indispensable always and
everywhere.” - Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 2448
Beginning with the Old Testament, all kinds of
juridical measures (the jubilee year of forgiveness of debts, prohibition of
loans at interest and the keeping of collateral, the obligation to tithe, the
daily payment of the day-laborer, the right to glean vines and fields) answer
the exhortation of Deuteronomy: “For the poor will never cease out of the
land; therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother,
to the needy and to the poor in the land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). Jesus makes these words His own: "The
poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me” (John 12:8).
In so doing He does not soften the vehemence of former oracles against “buying
the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals . . .,” but invites us
to recognize His own presence in the poor who are His brethren: (Amos 8:6;
Matthew 25:40) - Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 2449
When her mother censured her for caring for the
poor and the sick at home, St. Rose of Lima said to her: "When we serve
the poor and the sick, we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors,
because in them we serve Jesus.
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