Approximately 100 terminally ill people are at the "Elizabeth Health Centre", opened one year ago by the Cambodian Church in the capital Phnom Penh. The service rendered by the Catholic organisation, as told by Fides, is completely free, since such patients are often outcasts who live as beggars or tramps. It is a service that aims at showing the care of the Christian community for the poorest of the poor, the outcasts, those nobody cares of. The Elizabeth Health Centre is located at the parish church of the Holy Child in the neighbourhood of Beong Tompon, and its reputation has immediately spread all over the country: patients arrived there from all over Cambodia to let themselves be taken care of by the volunteers of the Centre. The Centre is highly regarded by private citizens, public bodies, Buddhist religious leaders, because of the way it is run, that is, with a welcoming reception, with mercy, with a loving service. The hospital was wanted by the priests, religious and lay people of the parish church of the Holy Child and is kept by private donations and small contributions from individual devotees, especially from Europe, Hong Kong and Australia.
