‘Medical Support of Respect for Life, a Better World with Sharing
Center for Medical Aid and Cooperation View the Video Clip on Volunteer Medical ServicesThe 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.
- We shall keep in mind that it is our mission to realize respect for life and medical missionary.
- We shall serve patients in areas with poor medical facilities with the love of God.
- We shall encourage evangelization of humankind through our medical missionary activities..
- We shall cultivate professionals devoted to medical missionary.
- What is the Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation?
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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.
- What does the
Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation do? -
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Operation of St. Mary’s Clinic
in Mongolia A clinic for medical support that
consists of the department of
internal medicine, pediatrics, diagnosis
and exam room, physical therapy room
and pharmacy for the extreme poor -
Volunteer Medical Services
in Overseas Countries Volunteer medical services in
Nepal, Mongolia, Cambodia and Philippines;
ophthalmic surgery in Ghana, Africa -
Emergency Medical Support
for Disaster Areas Establishing an emergency relief
response system; organizing a system
for cooperation with local hospitals;
24-hour emergency medical support
for people in the disaster area -
Improvement of Healthcare Environment
at the Region for Missionary Strengthening capabilities of
local hospitals and medical schools
to improve healthcare environment;
inviting local medical staffs
for education/training -
Projects to Support
the Less Privileged in Korea Offering medical services and
medicine free of charge for the
low-income group at the dead zone
of healthcare -
Inviting the Extreme Poor
for Surgery Screening and inviting patients
who cannot receive treatment
at local hospitals for surgery at CMC
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Operation of St. Mary’s Clinic
- Despite the fact that there are many people in need in Korea,
why in the Center helping those in other countries? -
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.
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Ecuador 1987
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Kenya 1992
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Mongolia 1997~
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - East Timor 1999
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Columbia 2003
- Before Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Indonesia 2005
- After Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Nepal 2010~
- After Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Cambodia 2010~
- After Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - Philippines 2013
- After Center for Medical Aid & Cooperation - East Timor 2013
- Emergency medical support - Dispatch of Haitian medical staff 2010
- Emergency medical support - Philippines 2010~
- Emergency medical support - Japan Earthquake donation and supplies support 2011
- volunteer + Medical staff training - Ghana eye surgery business 2012~2014
- How can I participate in the overseas medical
support or support the Center? -
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
Please contact the following for further information, if you wish to take part in the medical support or support the Center.
+82-2-3147-9411~4
cmac@catholic.ac.kr