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Much More Than A Hospital
Dear friends,
Maybe you hadn´t noticed – although the Diospi Suyana hospital is thriving, the word “hospital“ has actually disappeared from the logo at the top of the page. This is to reflect the reality that Diospi Suyana now con-sists of several important fields of ministry. First we built the hospital with the dental
▲ D r. K l a u s - D. J o h n h ä l t s e i n e D a n ke s r e d e
The 100,000th Patient – Reported in Peru´s Most Popular Weekly
Anette Bauscher headed up the Diospi Suyana office in Germa-ny for eight years. With her hard work, conscientiousness and wealth of good ideas she made
a significant contribution to the success of our work. Annette Bauscher is now leaving Diospi Suyana to take up a new challenge. We extend our gratitude to her for her tireless efforts and will continue to be good friends. From January, our new partner in the office is Erika Alex, a believer from the banking sector with a lot of experience with people. We wish her a good start in the new job.
and ophthalmic clinics. Then came the Children´s House for the many Diospi Suya-na Kids´Clubs and in just over a year it will be the Colegio Diospi Suyana. Diospi Suyana is dynamic and seeks to tackle needs where-ver they are. Thank you for helping us ! Yours, Martina and Klaus-Dieter John
On the afternoon of January 18th, Dr. Frank Nöh led staff in a catastrophe response trai-ning session. Just one hour
later, 35 casu-alties from a serious bus collision were brought to the hospital. Doc-tors and nurses were still ten-ding the many
Catastrophe On The Heels of Catastrophe Response Training Change at the Office
Everybody reads SOMOS – from the Government Minister to the girl at the hairdresser´s. Peru´s most po-pular weekly made Diospi Suyana known throughout the country with a report in 2006 and now, se-ven years on, reporter Gabriela Ma-chuca and photographer Lucero del Castillo spent a day at the hospital in preparation for a second report for SOMOS. Just as they were looking round the different departments on February 1st the Quechua Indio lady who was to become our 100,000th patient entered the waiting room. We consider this happy coincidence divine providence. The Indio lady had traveled two days to reach the
hospital. She was presented with a gift basket and, of course, treated free of charge. On February 16th SOMOS published a five page arti-cle showing our patient on the CT scanner.
wounded at midnight and five major surge-ries were needed.
▲ A s the patient was suffering from severe headaches, a C T sc an of her head was c arr ied out. The team of repor-ters look in at her.
▲ Left: A badly injured patient in the emergency room - Right: Anesthetist Dr. Ursula Schürks and surgeon Dr. Werner Wigger attend to a head injury.
▲ D r. Frank Nöh
D i o s p i S u y a n a
Dr. Klaus-Dieter & Dr. Martina John
Eleven Members of Staff Ex tend their Stay
An Enchanting Voice
Gynecologist Dr. Kathari-na Leeb (left) and dentist Dr. Marlen Luckow (right) are at this time in langu-age school preparing for service. ● Drs. Brady and their children Anna, Kon-stantin and Salome left Curahuasi at the end of January. The urologist and pediatrician had been pillars of the hospital since the begin-ning and as associate director Dr. David Brady had borne great responsibility. We extend our
heartfelt thanks to the family for their exemplary service.
Doctor Situation Remains Critical
School Construction On Schedule
Children from Curahuasi
No doubt one of the best items in the news-letter – eleven of our long-term members of staff want to extend their time of service by years. This illustrious group includes gyneco-logist Dr. Jens Haßfeld and his wife Damaris, nurse Claudia Nickel, radiographer Alexandra Kopp and teacher Lilli Warkentin, Marion Hof-mann from administration, computer specia-list Dominik Hüttner, technician Markus Rolli and his wife, teacher Julianna.
The three buildings with the 18 classrooms have their roofs on and the construction crew under Udo Klemenz is currently con-centrating on the science center and admi-nistration wing. When the dry season begins in April, the crew will pick up the tempo as there is so much still to be done before inau-guration in March 2014. The collection cam-paign on the “StayFriends“ website before Christmas raised $33,000 as over 16 million candles were lit across Europe for Diospi Su-yana.
Speaking Tour of Paraguay
The authorities were unwilling to allow a consi-derable quantity of donated supplies for our den-tal lab into the country due to allegedly missing use-by dates, jeopardizing almost $40,000 worth of new supplies. Two newspapers carried reports
on the blockade. The Panamerica TV station ran the story and the German embassy intervened, but it was the prayers and 2,600 emails from friends in 21 countries asking
Peru´s Minister of Health to release the con-tainer from Customs that brought the break- through and the supplies were allowed in.
From 16th to 21st February Dr. Klaus John spoke about the work of Diospi Suyana at several locations throughout Paraguay, in-cluding three German colonies in the Chaco and in Spanish-speaking congregations as well as giving TV and radio interviews.
The f irst buildings
with roofs ►
▲ All the boxes had to be taken out of container no. 32 f ive t imes – why??
The Fight for Container No. 32
When Damaris Hua-huachampi sings, many a hand furtively wipes away a tear. Her voice fills the audito-rium and every heart. The young woman from Cusco struggled for many years with the fact that her biological parents did not want her. Her adoptive parents taught her of the love of God that is there for every-one and so it is no surprise that Damaris sings of God´s faithfulness in Jesus Christ in all her songs. For her, faith is not a philo-sophy but her life´s foundation
▲ Damaris Huahua- champi
▲ At D r. John´s presentation in Loma Plata – an audience of 600 in the church building with more s itt ing outside the windows.
D r. Jens and Damaris
Haßfeld with Joel, Ni ls,
Marleen and El ias►
◄ D ominik Hüttner
▼Markus and Jul ianna Roll i AlexandraKopp ▼
Li l l i War-kentin ▼
Marion Hof-mann ▼
Claudia Nickel ▼ We are c urrently
in need of :● Teachers● D oc tors ● Nurses and● Administrators
Please send your gifts to:
Diospi Suyana - USA664 Liberty Church Roadc/o Jim MillerGray, TN 37615 USA
In the USA Diospi Suyana is a recognizednon-profit-organization and can issuetax receipts.
James H. MillerSecretary of Diospi Suyana - USATelephone 423-384-1776Email [email protected]
Roger Smalligan MD, MPHPresident of Diospi Suyana- USATelephone 806-356-0739Email [email protected]
Issue no 44 - March 2013
D i o s p i S u y a n a
A m i s s i o n h o s p i t a l f o r t h e Q u e c h u a I n d i a n s o f P e r u
