Coming Soon–Update on the Hospital
The doors to our hospital are scheduled to open in about two months. This will be a great day when the sick can get long-term care at this facility. The hospital is small (compared to Western facilities) but it is a place where the poorest of the poor will get free medical treatment. We already see over 10,000 a year at our clinic just a hundred feet from the door of the hospital. We will have an out-patient facility and an in-patient facility next to each other. I want to thank Rotary Australia for the funds and vision to build this facility. It takes a lot of perseverance because of the growing cost of materials and the quality of the construction is first class. This will be the best facility in the region. We even have a helicopter landing site and ambulance for emergency cases. This hospital has a birthing ward and food service. In many hospitals in Indonesia the family has to provide linens and food for their loved ones. We will provide food and all the personal care needed to make the hospital time positive.
It is amazing to realize we just purchased the 75 acres of this site only four years ago. We now have the clinic, children’s home, leper treatment center, medical base house, mechanics shop, security gates, carpenter’s work area, coconut oil processing facility, gardens over 1,000 fruiting trees, a kiosk, and numerous staff homes. This is a community committed to show compassion to the poor and needy.