[Pflienews] Can you assist PFLI so we can help this needy medical mission?

Tue Apr 28 06:34:00 MDT 2009

PFLI is prepared to make a sizable donation to this worthy cause, as we 
do several times a year for various medical missions.
Can you make a sacrifical donation today so we can get these important 
supplies to this unselfish order helping the poor and the indigant?

*You can make your donation right at our secure website at: 
www.pfli.org/shop*. Any size donation will help these good nuns!

Thanks!
Bo Kuhar, PharmD
Executive Director
PFLI PharmAid Center
www.pfli.org

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Hello, Bo,

I am copying this e-mail to others and so I want to tell them that you 
are a Catholic pro-life pharmacist in Columbus and founder of 
Pharmacists for Life International. I think that's the correct title.

I am trying to help some Sisters who are health care workers and 
teachers in a mission in Jamaica. They wear full habits. They are the 
Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. When he was a 
seminarian, Fr. Stash Dailey invited them a couple of times to speak at 
St. Patrick's [in Columbus, OH]. They are a Polish order, the same one 
whose Sisters cared for and ran the household of Pope John Paul II. I 
think I heard that one of them was a physician and she was with him in 
his final hours. I think that was portrayed in the movie about Pope John 
Paul II's life.

Here is the link to the website of the Sister Servants of the Most 
Sacred Heart of Jesus:

http://www.sacredheartsisters.org/

Their Sisters in PA contacted me a few months ago to see if I know any 
physician who would go to their Jamaica mission. They have found a young 
Polish physician, Dr. Andrew, but they are trying to get some financial 
support for him of about $200 per month to buy his food and his gasoline 
while he's working in the mission. I guess it is not a bad deal to get a 
doctor to work full time for $2,400 per year. J

There are American and Polish Sisters Servants there and a young Polish 
priest is the pastor.

The question I have for you is about this. The Sisters told me that they 
dispense medicine often to these extremely poor patients. They give them 
medications for diabetes and hypertension and I think some other things 
like asthma and antibiotics perhaps. They need medication bottles for 
them. They need a few thousand a month. Right now they wash and re-use 
the little bottles. I didn't think that was the best but it's the only 
thing they can do right now. They also give them things like cough and 
allergy medicines that go in bottles but they tell the patients to bring 
them to the next appointment and then they fill the bottles from the 
clinic's stock bottles.

Here's my question: do you happen to know where we could get and ship 
(inexpensively or donated) that many small medication bottles for 
tablets and capsules? Below is the e-mail that Sister Clare Maries sent 
me from Jamaica. The Sisters have a U.S. province based in Cresson, PA 
and this mission is a part of their province's work.

If you could think of anyone who could send the Sisters a donation to 
help cover the doctor's expenses, that would be a blessing too.

Thanks so much for any ideas you might have about the bottles.

Dennis Doody

P.S. I am also copying this e-mail to:

Father Stash Dailey (St. Michael parish in Worthington, Ohio)

Mother Ryszarda (U.S. provincial superior, Cresson, PA)

Sister Clare Marie (Magotty, Jamaica)

_Below is the e-mail from Sister Clare Marie in __Magotty__, __Jamaica__: _

Dear Dr. Doody,

Happy Easter from Jamaica!   We thank you for your interest in helping our

mission in Maggotty.

To respond to your questions, etc. -

First of all, a Society of St. Vincent de Paul is not possible for our

parish.  95% of the people are not Catholic and have very little

understanding of the Faith.  We are blessed to have 16 new members of the

parish who received Baptism at the Easter Vigil, but there are over 100

people who come for Sunday Mass only because it is a requirement to receive

money for the school program.  They are not willing to be baptized, etc. 
You may certainly contact Maxine Gooden - maybe she can visit us and speak

w/ Father about the SVD program.

I didn't realize that Stash Daley had been ordained and is now FATHER 
Daley.

Please give him my congraulations and tell him that he has ongoing prayers

through the Novena of Confidence to the Sacred Heart.

As for the medicine bottles, you can figure out how much we need - every

person who takes at least 4 kinds of pills (mostly for blood pressure and

sugar) makes a total of about 200 bottles each day the clinic is open

(estimating that we have 50 people).  That means we use about 600 bottles a

week. Besides the small pill bottles, we use larger bottles for DPH

Expectorant , Elixer, and Paracetamol [acetaminophen].  These are also 
reused by the same

patients if they bring their bottles when they come.  I think about

3000-5000 bottles a month would be a close estimate.

Dr. Andrew will be w/ us for 3 weeks in June.  We will ask him if he still

thinks about coming to Jamaica for a year.  If we get any details worked 
out

we'll let you know how you can help.

God bless - and thank you again.

Sr. Clare Marie - Sisters of the Sacred Heart

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