HAND OF GOD. Healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez ministering his curing power to a young cancer patient at the House of Hope. KIWI BULACLAC
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
For the young cancer patients, there is hope in the House of
Hope. There is also hope in Fr. Fernando Suarez, the healing priest who
came to visit the House of Hope last week to help heal the stricken
children.Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he had invited Fr. Suarez to Davao City partly for the cancer patients of the House of Hope, run in a room at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC).
Fr. Suarez held a healing mass at the center for the young wards. He also held masses in two Catholic churches that were attended by an estimated 50,000 people.
In the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa television program hosted by lawyer Gerladine Tiu on ABS/CBN on Sunday where the healing priest was a guest, Duterte said the children are desperate to be healed.
He hoped that through Fr. Suarez’ intervention, God would cure them.
Duterte is helping raise funds for the House of Hope and the young cancer patients. He has also donated a house in Margarita Villa near SPMC for the patients and their kin tending to them.
While some patients come only for check-up and medication, many stay in the ward for long. The long stay causes inconveneince to family members attending to the patients as the SPMC has no sleeping quarters or other provisions for them.
This prompted him out of pity to donate the Margarita property to SPMC spefically to be used for the young cancer victims.
The house now serves as temporary home for the children and those attending to them while the patients are on the recovery period, said Duterte who adds that many of the families with cancer patients at SPMC are from the nearby provinces and have no home in the city.
Duterte said the Margarita house now serves as an extension of the cancer ward at SPMC where children who lost their limbs practice their newly-installed prosthetics.
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