Diospi Suyana

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Top view of Diospi Suyana Hospital (2011). If you tap this picture 1 ×, you will find detailed explanations on the enlarged picture, which open when you run the cursor over it. Tapping that picture opens the largest picture.
Access to the Diospi Suyana Hospital. The children's playground can be seen in the background.
Look into the church.
View of the inner courtyard. The administration is on the left, the kitchen on the right.
The Diospi Suyana event arena.
Street view of the hospital (2011).

Diospi Suyana (free translation from Quechua : "Trust in God") is a missionary hospital in the Andean city of Curahuasi in the southern Peruvian region of Apurímac . It was brought into being by the German medical couple Klaus-Dieter and Martina John together with the German sponsoring association “Diospi Suyana”. The medical services offered by Diospi Suyana are specifically aimed at the indigenous Quechua in southern Peru. As a non-denominational and evangelical work, the mission hospital is based on the Evangelical Alliance .

The concept

The hospital is located in the southern Peruvian Andean city of Curahuasi at an altitude of 2,650 m. Thanks to its close proximity to the connecting axis Cusco-Abancay-Lima, it is relatively easy to reach. Around 750,000 people, most of whom are Quechua-speaking, live within a three-hour drive. The clinic offers comprehensive medical help and is aimed primarily at the rural population, who are mostly poor and who do not speak Spanish widely. The clinic is equipped with 100 beds, 4 operating theaters, two intensive care units, a laboratory and an X-ray facility with computer tomography . There is also a dental and eye clinic and an orthopedic workshop. About 200 Peruvians and 40 foreigners are employed in the hospital. This makes Diospi Suyana one of the most important employers in the Apurímac region . The foreign employees voluntarily forego a salary and are financed by self-established support groups.

history

In 1991, the surgeon Klaus-Dieter John traveled to the Peruvian highlands with his wife, the pediatrician Martina John. In view of the poverty and the lack of medical supplies for the Quechua people there, they decided to one day build a hospital there.

On August 17, 2002, ten people founded the German supporting association "Diospi Suyana" in Tabarz . The construction of the mission hospital began on May 24, 2005 solely on the basis of donations. Over 4,500 people attended the inauguration on August 31, 2007, including the then First Lady of Peru Pilar Nores de Garcia and the Minister of Health Carlos Vallejos. In the meantime, a dental clinic and an eye clinic have been built on the hospital premises.

In April 2012 the children's home was opened. It serves as the basis for the Diospi Suyana children's clubs for their weekly work. Since March 2014, the Diospi Suyana School has expanded the association's focus to include education. The school with 24 classrooms, specialist rooms, cafeteria, library and attached kindergarten offer the possibility to look after up to 600 children in the long term.

financing

Around 100,000 private individuals and 230 companies supported the various Diospi Suyana projects until November 2017 with donations of around USD 27 million. With this amount of money, the association financed the construction of the building as well as the treatment of around 270,000 patients. The contribution of the predominantly poor patients depends on their financial situation. Taken together, patient contributions averaged around 30% of the hospital's monthly budget.

Long-term maintenance is provided by a large international sponsorship group, to which 1004 people belonged in November 2017. The Diospi Suyana Foundation serves as a further source of finance. The Peruvian state helps by refunding the VAT paid and a discount on the electricity bill.

Diospi Suyana is recognized as a non-profit organization in Peru, Germany and the USA. In 2008, the daily newspaper “Die Welt” recognized Diospi Suyana as an example of the responsible use of donations.

aims

The goals of Diospi Suyana include improving medical care for the rural population (campesinos) through outpatient and inpatient care for patients, training indigenous nurses, medical village visits, cooperation with existing state health facilities, and educating patients about preventive healthcare issues and treatment and donation-subsidized treatment for patients.

Educational support for the children in the Curahuasi district through the construction and long-term maintenance of a Christian educational institution of international format, teaching Christian values ​​in lessons based on the Bible, up-to-date pedagogical training that enables the children to have later opportunities for advancement in society, scholarships for the poor Children through sponsorships, equal treatment for all children regardless of their race and class.

The proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in cooperation with local churches by missionary hospital chaplains, Christian literature, films, the lifestyle (testimony) of the missionaries, children's clubs, women and men work, social work, cooperation of the missionaries in the congregations.

An appreciation of Indian culture by naming the hospital and school with Indian names, courses in Quechua at the Colegio Diospi Suyana, respectful treatment of patients and students by the staff, the training of Indian employees.

A cooperative partnership with Christians and congregations in Europe and worldwide as well as a sensitization in the industrial nations for the concerns of the Indians of South America through regular information (magazines, letters, films) about the hospital and the school in the congregations, groups of visitors who participate in certain projects of the Work with the hospital and school on a temporary basis and attend information events.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter John: "I saw God." Diospi Suyana - Hospital of Hope. 8th edition. Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7655-1757-0 . Reading sample: text of the first chapter. The book has since appeared in English, Spanish and Romanian. Polish will be published in 2016.
  • Klaus-Dieter John: "God has seen us." Diospi Suyana - a story goes around the world. 2nd Edition. Brunnen, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7655-0930-8 .
  • Jenet and Geroff Benge: "The doctor with the line to God." Klaus-Dieter John: Daring use in the land of the Incas Brunnen, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7655-4289-3 . Youth book, translated into German by Beate Zobel. Original title "Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the land of the Incas". Also published in Spanish in 2014.

Web links

Commons : Diospi Suyana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dios has been the word for God borrowed from Spanish since the beginning of the colonial period ( Doctrina Christiana 1584); -pi is the suffix for "in"; suyay means "waiting" in Southern Quechua ( Qusqu-Qullaw , Chanka-Quechua ), suyana means "waiting room, waiting time, the one to be expected / awaited" (AMLQ Cusco: Simi Taqe Qheswa – Español – Qheswa, Cusco 2006), next to it “hope” (Teofilo Laime Ajacopa: Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz 2007). The meaning given on the hospital's website is: “ We trust in God ”. However, the first person plural (we) does not appear in the name.
  2. ^ Diospi Suyana: Creed (on the hospital website).
  3. ↑ a b Maja Kolonic: A life's work that saves life. In: Nürnberger Zeitung of October 23, 2015, p. 3
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Meißner: Clinic between heaven and earth. In: Doctors newspaper. January 27, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tobias Buyer: Called by God to the mountains of Peru. In: The world. July 16, 2013, accessed September 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c Financing and general data. In: Website of the Diospi-Suyana association. November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Michael Schmidt: You just have to believe in it. In: Tagesspiegel. March 23, 2008, accessed September 27, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Klaus-Dieter John: "I saw God." Diospi Suyana - Hospital of Hope. 4th edition. Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-7655-1757-0 , p. 76.
  9. ↑ Ralf Nehmzow: The doctor with the wire to God. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 27, 8, accessed September 27, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The story of Diospi Suyana. In: Website of the Diospi-Suyana association. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The structure. In: Website of the Diospi-Suyana association. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Margita Feldrapp: “I give everything I can.” How a German doctor collects donations for his hospital in Peru . Die Welt , February 19, 2008.
  13. ↑ Our goals. In: Internet presence of the “Diospi Suyana” association. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 32 ′ 35.3 "  S , 72 ° 42 ′ 24"  W.