Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David has offered its churches and schools as temporary field of hospitals for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients if the need arises.
In a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines News post, David said the diocese is willing to open its churches and schools in case public health facilities become insufficient.
“If we need to open our churches, chapels, and schools and turn them into temporary field hospitals for the sick, we should do so in the name of Christian compassion and charity. Let us make ourselves ready to volunteer and mobilize other volunteers to assist the public sector in attending to the victims,” the bishop said in a circular.
David also reminded the faithful not to forget the poor in these times of crisis.
“Let us, as members of the Body of Christ, take this crisis as an opportunity to express genuine care and compassion to the least of our brothers and sisters,” he said. (Christina I. Hermoso)