At Catholic hospital, Indonesian tsunami victims try to find healing

Published: 2005-01-28

MEDAN, Indonesia (CNS) -- At St. Elizabeth's Hospital, tsunami survivors try to find healing. Some, like Muchtar, a 32-year-old man with his right leg amputated at his thigh, search for physical and emotional healing. Others, keeping watch at bedsides, wait for family members to recover and try to deal with the loss of additional relatives. Medan, capital of Indonesia's North Sumatra province, was not as devastated by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunamis as neighboring Aceh province, but some from Aceh made their way there. The Archdiocese of Medan has said that all tsunami victims can be treated at archdiocesan hospitals free of charge; it is just one of their many efforts to help keep victims from getting lost in the shuffle of recovery efforts.

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