“Casa Betania is managed with human resources of volunteers, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, most of them are people who have no experience or background in health. They are given an express course to train them and provide them with the basics of caring for the sick, and at Casa Betania they have to carry out all the activities typical of what the family does when they have a sick person in a home,” he said.
And he added: “That is, administering medication, helping them clean themselves, making the bed, cleaning the house, making food, helping them feed themselves if they cannot do it alone. Some take them for a walk for a while, they develop lucid activities…”
Besides highlighted the big heart of many neighborswhich even in times of crisis and in a society that lives at a frenetic pace, are always available with the best disposition.
“Although it may seem like a lie, every time we ask for collaboration, financial or time availability, people from all social conditions always approach us, some who are well off financially but also others who are very humble. People who have a vocation for service, there are many more people than one imagines in our community with that generosity,” he highlighted.
The schedules
Finally, he indicated that volunteers will be required “at least once a week in an estimated 4-hour shift, which can be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 3 p.m., from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., or from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. , from 9 to 9, are reserved for paid caregivers, the only hired staff we have,” he concluded.
Interested parties must call the following phone number 2995865030.
The headquarters of the Solatium Patagonia Foundation It was unprecedented in the region and deepened the functioning of the interdisciplinary team that until then visited neighbors in their homes to provide support, relieve pain and assist the families of the sick.
The objective is to provide a better environment for emotional support to people who require palliative care.
Another similar Foundation
Hospice Madre de Misericordia is another similar foundation, which in order to alleviate people’s suffering in that final stage, accompanies the patient “wherever they are, whether at home or in an institution where they are hospitalized since they are being treated.” of an itinerant service, we do not have physical space.”
“Our role also includes going to pick up the patient, we take them to the hospital, we explain the professionals’ instructions well because they sit in front of the doctor and many times they have no idea what they are telling them. We try to get them appointments, even private ones, etc.,” they commented on a work they carry out with enormous commitment and social sensitivity.
