Helliniko 04/02/13
On Monday, January
28, 2013 a volunteer medical team of the Metropolitan Community Clinic at
Helliniko (MCCH) visited the boarding facility of St Anargyri in Kantza at the
invitation of the director of the institution.
The facility hosts fifty-two people with severe mental retardation motor
disabilities, aged from ten to sixty- two.
The purpose of the visit was to inform the volunteer doctors of MCCH and
document the needs of the residents. MCCH’s
team found serious deficiencies in medicines and doctors, physiotherapists and
psychologists, and specialties absolutely necessary for the overall maintenance
of status and mobility of these individuals.
After the visit, MCCH
decided to assist and support this facility.
They will try to cover the monthly needs of St. Anargyri in medicine and
medical care. Specialists will make frequent
visits to the institution. MCCH’s team
of psychologists will assist the institution’s
solitary existing psychologist in his overwhelming work. Finally, MCCH will also arrange for a physiotherapist to
visit the residence and resume daily physiotherapy, which is essential in such
cases.
Apart from this, MCCH
gave the management of the foundation a large amount of materials absolutely
necessary for the daily care of the residents, including medical supplies, wheelchairs,
etc.
St.
Anargyri’s management described MCCH’s assistance as “lifesaving”. We prefer to call it simple respect for
diversity and respect for human existence.
Respect that we believe is owed to its citizens by a well governed
state.
