THE DISPENSARY BEGAN IN A BAMBOO HUT IN 1992 NEXT TO THE BAMBOO CHURCH OF STA ROSA DE LIMA..THE MEDICAL TEAM WHO HAD CONTINUED TO WORK IN THE JOSPICE DISPENSARY IN ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARISH IN THE SLUM OF SUBURBIO GUAYAQUIL WHEN I WAS APPOINTED TO ST LOUIS IN 1985,MOVED TO THE ISLA TRINITARIA TO BEGIN THE NEW DISPENSARY. THEY HAD GIVEN OUTSTANDING SERVICE FOR 16 YEARS(1975 – 1992).THIS YEAR 2009 THEY WILL COMPLETE ANOTHER 18 YEARS OF MEDICAL SERVICE THIS TIME TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ISLA TRINITARIA.. A MORE DEDICATED TEAM OF DOCTORS AND NURSES WOULD BE VERY HARD TO FIND.FATHER FRANK SMITH MHM WAS SECONDED TO JOSPICE INTERNATIONAL IN 1973 FOUNDED BY FATHER FRANK OLEARY MHM OF CROSBY LIVERPOOL. FATHER SMITH WAS FIRST SENT TO PERU TO A TOWN ON THE FAMOUS RIVER APURIMAC CALLLED SAN FRANCISCO.THERE WAS A SMALL JOSPICE HOSPITAL AND A SMALL CHAPEL IN THE TOWN. THIS WAS AN AREA LATER TO BE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SENDEROS LUMINOSOS. ON COMPLETING A YEAR THERE, FATHER SMITH WAS ASKED TO GO TO ECUADOR TO BEGIN A NEW CLINIC FROM SCRATCH. HE CHOSE THE BIG SLUM OF SUBURBIO GUAYAQUIL AS THE RIGHT PLACE TO SERVE THE POOR.HE WAS APPOINTED PARISH PRIEST OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL AND HE FOUNDED THE JOSPICE CLINIC. HE WORKED THERE UNTIL 1985 WHEN THE SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES ,BISHOP CORNELIUS DE WIT MHM APPOINTED HIM TO BE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES HOUSE IN ST LOUIS MISSOURI USA .THIS TERMINATED HIS WORK FOR JOSPICE .
AFTER SPENDING SIX YEARS IN ADMINISTRATION IN ST LOUIS USA, FATHER SMITH WAS APPOINTED BACK TO GUAYAQUIL BY THE NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL FATHER MAURICE McGILL MHM. THIS WAS IN 1991. THIS IS WHEN THE PRESENT HISTORY OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES IN ECUADOR BEGAN.THE HISTORY OF THE YEARS 1974 – 1985 HAVE ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN IN TWO VOLUMES WHICH ARE HOPEFULLY STILL IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES IN FRESHFIELD LIVERPOOL UK.FATHER FRANK OLEARY MHM WAS AN OUTSTANDING MILL HILLMISSIONARY WHO GRADUATED FROM GLASGOW UNIVERSITY IN 1960 AND WAS APPOINTED BY THE SUPERIOR GENERAL BISHOP GERRY MAHON MHM TO RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN TO TEACH IN SCHOOLS. HE WAS VERY UPSET BY THE POVERTY AND SICKNESS HE OBSERVED IN PAKISTAN AND DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HE GOT THE APPROVAL OF BISHOP GERRY MAHON MHM. WITH THE FANTASTIC HELP OF MANY FRIENDS HE FOUNDED ST JOSEPH,S HOSPICE ASSOCIATION TO CARE FOR THE POOR, THE SICK AND THE ABANDONED FIRST IN PAKISTAN WHERE HIS FIRST PATIENT WAS MRS JACOBS WHO HAD BEEN ABANDONED. AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. HIS WORK INSPIRED MANY PEOPLE. HE OPENED THE CASA DE SAN JOSE IN THORNTON LIVERPOOL, AND HETTINGA HOUSE IN ORMSKIRK. HE FOUNDED CLINICS IN COLOMBIA, SAN BERNARDO DEL VIENTO, IN PERU, CALLAO, NEGRITOS, TAMBO, AND SAN FRANCISCO THE APURIMAC RIVER. FATHER OLEARY MHM WROTE HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN A BOOK CALLLED JOSPICE. IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2004..HE WENT THROUGH SOME VERY DIFFICULT AND STRESSFUL TIMES WITH DEBTS. BUT HE HAD A TREMENDOUS FAITH IN OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH WHO HELPED HIM MIRACULOUSLY-HE ALSO HAD VERY LOYAL AND COURAGEOUS HELPERS. THE NAME OF ST JOSEPH,S HOSPICE ASSOCIATION WAS CHANGED TO THE SIMPLE WORD JOSPICE. FATHER OLEARY MHM DIED OCTOBER 4TH 2000.MAY HE REST IN PEACE., JOSPICE CONTINUES TO DO GREAT WORK IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS IN PAKISTAN, COLOMBIA, PERU ,ECUADOR AND P ÀKISTANFATHER FRANK SMITH MHM HELPED FATHER FRANK OLEARY MHM FROM 1974 -1985..FATHER OLEARY,S WONDERFUL DEDICATION TO THE SICK, THE POOR AND THE ABANDONED, INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INCLUDING MYSELF, AND HAD ALL THE MAKINGS OF A SAINT. NOT EVERYONE WOULD AGREE WITH THIS. HIS BOLD BUT COURAGEOUS PURCHASE OF BIG PROPERTIES ALARMED MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING SOME OF HIS FELLOW MHM MISSIONARIES. SOME THOUGHT HE WAS TOO BIG FOR HIS BOOTS BUT HE SUCCEEDED AND GOT THE WORK DONE WHERE OTHERS MIGHT HAVE FAILED. FATHER OLEARY MHM CERTAINLY LIT A CANDLE. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER VINCENT NICHOLS IS FATHER OLEARY,S COUSIN. THEY GREW UP AS BOYS TOGETHER IN CROSBY.THE PRESENT ST ROSE OF LIMA CLINIC IN THE ISLA TRINITARIA WAS BUILT THROUGH THE TREMENDOUS GENEROSITY OF A CATHOLIC COUPLE FROM BOSTON. THEY ALSO BUILT THE SCHOOL AND THE DAY CARE CENTRE.. WE HAVE TWO DOCTORS, FIVE NURSES AND TWO HEALTH PROMOTERS. DOCTORA LORENA IS A GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICTIONER BUT SHE IS SPECIALISED IN AIDS AND TROPICAL MEDICINE. DOCTOR JORGE GAIBOR IS A PEDIATRICIAN WHO IS HEAD OF THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IN THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL IN GUAYAQUIL. THE NURSES ARE MARIA LUISA, OBEMIA, CARMEN, TRINIDAD AND DORA, AND THE ASSISTANTS ARE MARTHA, ARACELLY AND AZUCENA. JOSPICE SENDS 1000 POUNDS STERLING EVERY MONTH TO ENABLE US TO RUN THE CLINIC- WE HAVE A SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR MALNOURISHED BABIES AND CHILDREN WHICH IS FUNDED BY MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY FOUNDED BY TIM BILODEAU OF BOSTON. WE HAVE OUR CLOSE FRIENDS IN THE POR CRISTO INC FOUNDED BY DR MARTIN DUNN AND HIS SISTER ROSEMARY BYRNE RN OF BOSTON. FOR MANY YEARS THEY BROUGHT DOWN MEDICAL TEAMS TO HELP HANDICAPPPED CHILDREN IN NEED OF DELICATE SURGERY. THEY ACHIEVED MIRACLES..EVENTUALLY POR CRISTO BUILT A NUTRITION CENTRE IN THE ISLA TRINITARIA IN ST TERESA,S PARISH WHICH HAD BEEN BRILLIANTLY PREPARED AND ORGANISED BY ROSEANNE OBRIEN RN AND JOSEPH REARDON WHO IS NOW THE DIRECTOR OF POR CRISTO..DEBORAH CLARK RN IS HIS MEDICAL ADVISER AND NUTRITION EXPERT WHO SUCCEEDED ELIZABETH BROWN RN. THE POR CRISTO COORDINATOR IN GUAYAQUIL IS TERESA ARCE DE TERAN BMA. SHE HAS HELPED US A GREAT DEAL OVER MANY YEARS.. OUR ST ROSE OF LIMA CLINIC BELONGS TO THE CHAIN OF 62 CLINICS ORGANISED AND COORDINATED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF GUAYAQUIL MONSEÑOR ANTONIO ARREGUI YARZA, THE NAME GIVEN TO THE CHAIN OF CLINICS IS REDIMA.WE ALSO BECAME FRIENDS WITH RONNA KROZY A TUTOR IN THE BOSTON COLLEGE OF NURSING. SHE BROUGHT TEAMS OF NURSES DOWN FROM BOSTON TO THE ISLA TRINITARIA TO HELP US OUT AND TO HELP OUT MANY VERY POOR FAMILIES WITH ADVICE AND PRACTICAL MEASURES.HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF SOME OF OUR PATIENTS AND THE DISPENSARY.THE COMMON SICKNESSES WHICH WE ENCOUNTER ARE AS FOLLOWS:RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND COMPLICATIONS.
AFTER SPENDING SIX YEARS IN ADMINISTRATION IN ST LOUIS USA, FATHER SMITH WAS APPOINTED BACK TO GUAYAQUIL BY THE NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL FATHER MAURICE McGILL MHM. THIS WAS IN 1991. THIS IS WHEN THE PRESENT HISTORY OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES IN ECUADOR BEGAN.THE HISTORY OF THE YEARS 1974 – 1985 HAVE ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN IN TWO VOLUMES WHICH ARE HOPEFULLY STILL IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE MILL HILL MISSIONARIES IN FRESHFIELD LIVERPOOL UK.FATHER FRANK OLEARY MHM WAS AN OUTSTANDING MILL HILLMISSIONARY WHO GRADUATED FROM GLASGOW UNIVERSITY IN 1960 AND WAS APPOINTED BY THE SUPERIOR GENERAL BISHOP GERRY MAHON MHM TO RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN TO TEACH IN SCHOOLS. HE WAS VERY UPSET BY THE POVERTY AND SICKNESS HE OBSERVED IN PAKISTAN AND DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HE GOT THE APPROVAL OF BISHOP GERRY MAHON MHM. WITH THE FANTASTIC HELP OF MANY FRIENDS HE FOUNDED ST JOSEPH,S HOSPICE ASSOCIATION TO CARE FOR THE POOR, THE SICK AND THE ABANDONED FIRST IN PAKISTAN WHERE HIS FIRST PATIENT WAS MRS JACOBS WHO HAD BEEN ABANDONED. AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. HIS WORK INSPIRED MANY PEOPLE. HE OPENED THE CASA DE SAN JOSE IN THORNTON LIVERPOOL, AND HETTINGA HOUSE IN ORMSKIRK. HE FOUNDED CLINICS IN COLOMBIA, SAN BERNARDO DEL VIENTO, IN PERU, CALLAO, NEGRITOS, TAMBO, AND SAN FRANCISCO THE APURIMAC RIVER. FATHER OLEARY MHM WROTE HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN A BOOK CALLLED JOSPICE. IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2004..HE WENT THROUGH SOME VERY DIFFICULT AND STRESSFUL TIMES WITH DEBTS. BUT HE HAD A TREMENDOUS FAITH IN OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH WHO HELPED HIM MIRACULOUSLY-HE ALSO HAD VERY LOYAL AND COURAGEOUS HELPERS. THE NAME OF ST JOSEPH,S HOSPICE ASSOCIATION WAS CHANGED TO THE SIMPLE WORD JOSPICE. FATHER OLEARY MHM DIED OCTOBER 4TH 2000.MAY HE REST IN PEACE., JOSPICE CONTINUES TO DO GREAT WORK IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS IN PAKISTAN, COLOMBIA, PERU ,ECUADOR AND P ÀKISTANFATHER FRANK SMITH MHM HELPED FATHER FRANK OLEARY MHM FROM 1974 -1985..FATHER OLEARY,S WONDERFUL DEDICATION TO THE SICK, THE POOR AND THE ABANDONED, INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INCLUDING MYSELF, AND HAD ALL THE MAKINGS OF A SAINT. NOT EVERYONE WOULD AGREE WITH THIS. HIS BOLD BUT COURAGEOUS PURCHASE OF BIG PROPERTIES ALARMED MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING SOME OF HIS FELLOW MHM MISSIONARIES. SOME THOUGHT HE WAS TOO BIG FOR HIS BOOTS BUT HE SUCCEEDED AND GOT THE WORK DONE WHERE OTHERS MIGHT HAVE FAILED. FATHER OLEARY MHM CERTAINLY LIT A CANDLE. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER VINCENT NICHOLS IS FATHER OLEARY,S COUSIN. THEY GREW UP AS BOYS TOGETHER IN CROSBY.THE PRESENT ST ROSE OF LIMA CLINIC IN THE ISLA TRINITARIA WAS BUILT THROUGH THE TREMENDOUS GENEROSITY OF A CATHOLIC COUPLE FROM BOSTON. THEY ALSO BUILT THE SCHOOL AND THE DAY CARE CENTRE.. WE HAVE TWO DOCTORS, FIVE NURSES AND TWO HEALTH PROMOTERS. DOCTORA LORENA IS A GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICTIONER BUT SHE IS SPECIALISED IN AIDS AND TROPICAL MEDICINE. DOCTOR JORGE GAIBOR IS A PEDIATRICIAN WHO IS HEAD OF THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IN THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL IN GUAYAQUIL. THE NURSES ARE MARIA LUISA, OBEMIA, CARMEN, TRINIDAD AND DORA, AND THE ASSISTANTS ARE MARTHA, ARACELLY AND AZUCENA. JOSPICE SENDS 1000 POUNDS STERLING EVERY MONTH TO ENABLE US TO RUN THE CLINIC- WE HAVE A SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR MALNOURISHED BABIES AND CHILDREN WHICH IS FUNDED BY MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY FOUNDED BY TIM BILODEAU OF BOSTON. WE HAVE OUR CLOSE FRIENDS IN THE POR CRISTO INC FOUNDED BY DR MARTIN DUNN AND HIS SISTER ROSEMARY BYRNE RN OF BOSTON. FOR MANY YEARS THEY BROUGHT DOWN MEDICAL TEAMS TO HELP HANDICAPPPED CHILDREN IN NEED OF DELICATE SURGERY. THEY ACHIEVED MIRACLES..EVENTUALLY POR CRISTO BUILT A NUTRITION CENTRE IN THE ISLA TRINITARIA IN ST TERESA,S PARISH WHICH HAD BEEN BRILLIANTLY PREPARED AND ORGANISED BY ROSEANNE OBRIEN RN AND JOSEPH REARDON WHO IS NOW THE DIRECTOR OF POR CRISTO..DEBORAH CLARK RN IS HIS MEDICAL ADVISER AND NUTRITION EXPERT WHO SUCCEEDED ELIZABETH BROWN RN. THE POR CRISTO COORDINATOR IN GUAYAQUIL IS TERESA ARCE DE TERAN BMA. SHE HAS HELPED US A GREAT DEAL OVER MANY YEARS.. OUR ST ROSE OF LIMA CLINIC BELONGS TO THE CHAIN OF 62 CLINICS ORGANISED AND COORDINATED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF GUAYAQUIL MONSEÑOR ANTONIO ARREGUI YARZA, THE NAME GIVEN TO THE CHAIN OF CLINICS IS REDIMA.WE ALSO BECAME FRIENDS WITH RONNA KROZY A TUTOR IN THE BOSTON COLLEGE OF NURSING. SHE BROUGHT TEAMS OF NURSES DOWN FROM BOSTON TO THE ISLA TRINITARIA TO HELP US OUT AND TO HELP OUT MANY VERY POOR FAMILIES WITH ADVICE AND PRACTICAL MEASURES.HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF SOME OF OUR PATIENTS AND THE DISPENSARY.THE COMMON SICKNESSES WHICH WE ENCOUNTER ARE AS FOLLOWS:RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND COMPLICATIONS.
ASTHMA.TUBERCULOSIS-DIABETES GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS BECAUSE OF CONTAMINATED WATER AND FOOD.. TYPHOID AND SALMONELLOSIS-DENGUE FEVER AND MALARIA. HEPATITIS AND CIRRHOSIS.AIDS WHICH IS INCREASING ALARMINGLY.CANCERS OF THE BREAST, CERVIX, UTERUS, ETCPARASITES. AMOEBA, ASCARIS, SCHISTOSOMIASIS, LEISHMANIASIS, ETC CISTICERCOSIS. SYPHILIS AND STDS. SKIN DISEASES. ALLERGIES, RHEUMATIC FEVER, SCABIES, PSORIASIS, SKIN CANCERS.WE HAVE A FULL VACCINATION PROGRAMME.WE DO MINOR SURGERY. WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT SYSTEM OF REFERRALS TO LOCAL HOSPITALS ESPECIALLY THE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS, THE TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL,THE BURNS UNITS, AND THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL CALLLED LORENZO PONCE.
Doctor Lorena.St Rose of Lima clinic. 2005
The Doctor has served the poor for many many years
and won the hearts of the people in the Isla Trinitaria.
Her husband is a doctor too.
Jose Luis with his leg stump. He is 17 years old.
Visiting shacks in the parish of St Rose of Lima.
Jose Luis and his stump.He was struck by a car.He neglected his injuries
because he was poor.Gangrene set in.
Arturo Caicedo a gang leader is paralysed after a street fight.He too neglected
his injuries and ended up with huge bed sores. Nobody wants him.
Yomaira has HIV and is receiving help.
Our dispensary St Rose of Lima
Olga Quiñonez.she is paralysed from the waist down and has breast cancer.
Maria Luisa visiting Olga.
Pepita has heart problems.
Najeli with her sister outside her home.
Waiting for an appointment with the doctor.
Lupe Bravo with her son Luber
Doctor Jorge Gaibor making house visits-.
A mother with twins.
A patient with a neck tumour which turned out to be benign.
Waiting to see the doctor.
A young mother Katty with her baby
Juana Quiñonez with her family.
She is a valiant leader among the people.
Tania Murillo with her tumours and her new baby.
We are hoping she will get well eventually.
Tamara Ortiz crying because her child is sick and her little girl of three
has died.
Heidi Salazar lives in terrible poverty. She comes to us for help
almost daily.
A young mother.
Lady Corozo and her children. One of them is hydrocephalic-
A valve was inserted.
Maria Luisa attending to the patients.
Alexandra Alman visits Priscila with cistercercosis.
She has a parasite in her brain from eating uncooked pork.
Brittany one of our malnourished children is getting better.
Aracelly with her baby. She is 13.
A malnourished baby and his mum.
This is Lady Corozo and her hydrocephalic baby
The children cooling off. Temperatures reach 36 degrees.
The twins
Some of the local children
The children go to our school St Rose of Lima
Sandy Ortiz and her daughter who fell off the catwalk
leading from her house to the street.
Juan Rojas Vera born totally paralysed,blind,deaf and dumb.
His father kicked his mother repeatedly in the stomach when she was pregnant.
Juan Rojas Vera 17 years old.
Juan,s bedsores. He was taken to a hospice for the incurables
as was his mother Sandra Vera Burgos. Bothe died there. May
they rest in peace.
Juan,s bedsores. We did everything possible to help him.
Sandra valiantly suffering festering cancer of the breast.
What suffering and what poverty! May she rest in peace.
Sandra carying her cross.
Norma with cervical cancer was taken to the Cancer Hospital
but died a few days after. May she rest in peace. Her sisters
are looking after her three children. May she rest in peace.
Alexandra,s mother was a drug addict,now happily reformed.
Thanks to help from our parish.
The staff of our clinic.
Genesis was badly burned in a fire but here she is
recuperated.
Tania Murillo is being treated for Tuberculosis
and possible lymphomas.
Sandra and Juan,mother and son.
Maria Toledo with her seven children, six girls and one boy.
