The General canonical
visitation of the Vietnamese Province stared on 2nd May 2024 and
closed the visitation on 6th June 2024. The closing took place in
the presence of Prior General Bro. Jesus Etayo and the General councilor Bro.
Pascal Ahodegnon. In the province there are four canonical communities and four
non canonical communities. There are 72 Solemn Professed Brothers, 11
scholastics, 06 novices, one oblate and five candidates. The membership of the
province is 90 Brothers altogether. The province is mainly offering hospitality
services in the area of traditional medicine such as acupuncture,
physiotherapy, laser therapy etc. They also produce herbal medicine and the
herbal medicine is used for the treatment of the patients at their centers. There
are 7 centers of the traditional medicine and there are about 100 co-workers in
the province. Most of the Brothers are working at their centers. The patients
who are treated at their centers are partly or completely paralyzed or with
other symptoms after stroke, or after accidents etc. They have residential care
services and day care services. Recently they started a palliative care service
for 10 patients. The province is making good progress providing hospitality
services and made lot of improvements in terms of infrastructure.
The visitation
concluded on the 06th June with a meeting of all Brothers in the province in
the morning and another meeting with Brothers and Co-workers where in the
afternoon, followed by Holy mass and Agape meal to all participants.