On October 12, after several months of preparations, we opened a dental clinic in the El Pesebre neighborhood of Bogotá. This is a new initiative of the Community of Saint Paul in Colombia, which wants to offer dental services at low cost to the people of the La Resurrección, Granjas de San Pablo and El Pesebre neighborhoods, where we work within the territory of La Resurrección parish.
The new dental clinic joins other initiatives that we have already been carrying out in the field of healthcare: the work of a nurse who does home visits to sick people, and that of two psychologists who offer psychological support several days a week.
For now, the practice will open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The dentist we have hired is a person with many years of experience in the field, who also understands the service vocation of this particular clinic.
The population of our neighborhoods (in which until now there was only a small private dental clinic) has welcomed this new initiative with great joy and gratitude. We hope that the clinic will become another sign of the Church's work in these vulnerable sectors of Bogotá, aimed at dignifying the lives of its inhabitants.
