Sister Adela Orea finally got a clean water source for her hospital in Chiapas, Mexico. But should it take a tenacious sister and years of persistence for a health care facility to get safe water?
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Vatican water and hygiene initiative for health care facilities is an investment in life
The lack of water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities worldwide kills infants, women and front-line workers. The Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, led by Cardinal Peter Turkson, has launched a new initiative to improve water, sanitation and hygiene conditions at its facilities. Image by Jeff Jacobs from Pixabay
April 7, 2021
(RNS) With an indomitable spirit, Sister Adela Orea, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and currently the administrator of San Carlos de Altamirano Chiapas Hospital in southern Mexico, has provided health care for 37 years in remote and impoverished areas in Mexico and Cameroon. What’s more remarkable is that she has done so most often without running water.