The Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation under the CMC Department for Realization of Spirituality is a specialized department for medical missionary in countries around the world to fulfill spirituality of respect for life and medical missionary. The purpose of its establishment is to realize the following declaration on CMC medical missions.
We hereby declare to fulfill the following missions so as to realize the core values of CMC,
respect for life and medical missionary, following the example of Jesus Christ the Healer within ourselves.
Since its foundation in 1936, CMC (Catholic Medical Center) has been practicing holistic therapy for our neighbors in need following the example of Jesus Christ the Healer, and spreading the God’s love to patients in areas with poor medical facilities without ceasing to show interest and provide services.
Based on its long tradition and experience, it built a new organization called the Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation in November 2010 for more systematic and efficient operation of medical missionaries in overseas countries. After St. Mary’s Clinic for charitable activities reopened in Mongolia in July 2011, a wide range of medical support activities, including a mobile clinic service in Nepal, East Timor, Philippines and Cambodia, inviting pediatric patients in Mongolia for cardiac surgery and eyesight recovery operations in Ghana, Africa.
However, there are places still in need of medical support.
CMC will further conduct medical missionary projects for areas with less medical facilities and support throughout the world.
CMC is a medical institution established to follow the example of Jesus Christ the Healer who cared for patients with compassion and love.
One of our critical missions is to succeed the God’s healing by providing aid for people in need.
Since CMC’s establishment in 1936, our missions of respect for life and spirituality are desperately needed in the volunteer medical services and support in overseas countries.
The possibility of a child born in Mongolia to be healthy after 5 years is 10 times less than that in Korea. The chance of survival of a life with absolute values is determined by the nation and region in which a child is born. The world is getting more and more closer to social inequalities. Five out of thousand babies in Korea die before 5 years old. Approximately three in Japan and 6 in America. Unfortunately, about 50 babies in Mongolia, 55 in Ghana and 65 in Nepal where the Center for Medical Aid and Cooperation operates die before five, and up to 160 babies in Afghanistan which is one of the poorest countries in the world. 5 and 160 babies. What does this big difference mean?
In reality, billions of people may have never been patients and pass away without proper medical care. People meet an untimely death because of diseases such as maternal death or tuberculosis and infant diarrhea, which can be easily cured. The Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation shares pain with the God’s warm heart and puts in every effort to solve the problem based on the Catholic’s medical ethics.
A relationship between medical personnel and people suffering from pain caused by illness is not like a relation specified in the business contract. No other expert or specialist can get closer to those suffering from illnesses more frequently than health/medical care service personnel.
Thus, CMC’s Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation declares that every individual has a right to be treated whenever ill as it confronts inequalities in healthcare that are intensified in the era of globalization. The Center will be at the frontline working continuously and effectively to fulfill fair healthcare based on the spirit of respect for life.
There are many children in countless numbers around the world suffering from famine, pain and grief.
And, the children’s parents have no other choice, but to utter a deep sigh and ceaselessly shed tears.
I could only hold their hands and put a stethoscope for previous years.
However, if we work together, we can wipe their eyes and change their sigh into a laughter of joy.
We should now work together.
Let us cooperate. Together with you