Africa-Press – Lesotho. Ottawa Love Sisters, Mothers of the Potty Blue Cross, known as Charities, have launched a campaign to ask for cancer patients receiving Sankatana services.
These can be in the form of food, fruit, soap and other items that they can use while they are in storage before being transferred to South Africa, or while waiting to return to their remote homes.
of Maseru. Some of these nuns in 2019 visited the Center for the Disease at Queen II Hospital and accompanied the nun ‘with them’. They listen to patients as they talk about how the disease is afflicting them, and how their journey to treatment in Bloemfontein is burdening them.
They talk about the challenges of lack of food and supplies while waiting for treatment, and their statements are heartbreaking. The nuns said that in an interview with the Director of Sankatana Hospital, Dr.
Pearl Ntsekhe, worked hard to improve sleep, nutrition and patient safety while waiting for treatment and on their way back to their homes in other parts of the country.
They say that the hunger that was evident in the patients was the one that touched their hearts the most. “Even the doctors who worked there at Queen II confirmed that starvation is more important than illness, because their medicine requires them to eat.
Before Ntchekhe flowed, the nursing home was terrifying, whether it was children, men or women, regardless of the type of cancer and the consequences of its condition, ”explained one of the nuns.
They say that as monks of Love, this touched their hearts, and they remembered their mission in the world of helping the bereaved, caring for the sick, helping the poor and educating them. They said they decided to help by providing food for those patients.
After reaching an agreement with the Sankatana and Oncology Clinic Queen II officials, they raised money from their residences, and began operations in October 2019, to see them as the month of Founder.
of their union (Makarita d’Youville holy), Mission month in their Church (Missionary Month) and international breast cancer month. According to Sister Alice Mputsoe, the expectation was that they would help the area temporarily.
He says they have been doing this for a year now, and the money is also gone but this work seems to be a lot bigger than before. Sister Mputsoe says they only manage to treat patients twice a week, ‘Monday and Tuesday, while on other days of the week patients do not receive this benefit when they go to South Africa for treatment.
“Although we only provide food for two days here, these patients are always in Sankatana, and they go every day for five weeks,” he said.
He added that this meant that in three days there would be no feeder, and patients would go hungry with those who waited for their days there. Sister Mputsoe says their wish is to feed from Monday to Friday.
He also explained that one of the challenges these patients face is the lack of money to travel from home to Sankatana, especially those living in remote areas – in Maluting. She says they are also asking for donations for the pills used by ‘mothers’ when they are in their menstrual period and cervical cancer.
“Basotho should realize that these patients are the poorest of the poor because they still have the ability to travel to South Africa without any problems,” said the Attowa Love Monks appeal.
Mputsoe explained that the Corona virus epidemic had hit them hard as the activities they were doing as a fundraiser were affected, adding that the people who had volunteered to help were ikhutsi. He appealed to people of good will to help, “the cow has fallen, the Basotho are dying of disease and starvation and can only join hands”.
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