CONGO (DRC) - Kinshasa
Our Small Hospital The coronavirus epidemic caused many difficulties for the Mission and necessarily put a halt to ongoing projects. People were locked in their homes. Domestic and international airlines stopped operating, and Kinshasa was shut off the rest of the country. Those of our students who did not manage to leave for their hometowns, were confined to the boarding house of our Theological School. The bishop, wanting to make them feel safe and secure, stood by their side so that they would feel his care and concern. Stores and houses of prayer were locked down for the faithful. Financial hardships were multiplied. Difficult days dawned. Naturally, all these affected the missionary activity of our Diocese and led it to the sus-
pension of all actions and projects. In our small hospital, the Health Center, works had stopped before the coronavirus outbreak. They had stopped because we had run out of the donated funds and the Diocese had no money to continue the project. Besides, there are so many activities going on and our funds are so limited that nothing is left for the continuation of the Health Center works. The project had progressed but it was not possible to be completed. The patient rooms and the 1st floor treatment rooms were completed. Now, equipment is missing, as well as the doors that are currently travelling in the container your Fraternity sent us. This floor was used last spring by the doctors who came 21
