San Juan de Dios moved to Minister of health work health carried out in Spain.

Julián Sánchez Bravo (head of the Betica province), Pascual Piles Ferrando (Aragon) and Miguel Angel Varona Alonso (Castilla) indicated that we have been able to submit everything what we considered that it should know, in fact we have come so that he knew the hospitaller order in each autonomous community and its whole within Spain, and have also requested that she tell us those things considered interesting that we can provide to situate ourselves in the work that we are doing ”.

La ministra mostró su apoyo a los proyectos de San Juan de Dios, aunque reconoció las dificultades que plantea la situación actual de crisis. Ana Mato showed special interest in the area of social action, and enhance the welfare work of the residences.

Three officials of the institution also presented the different realities and needs of the centres in the different autonomous communities, most of them located in Andalusia, where have 4 hospitals, as well as homes for the elderly, social canteens or specialized centres in attention to mental health and intellectual disability, among other projects.

During the meeting the Minister was very interested by the work done by the OHSJD in the 42 centros sociosanitarios manages in Spain, and divided into six categories of intervention: general hospitals, medical surgical and child care centres in mental health and Psychiatry, centres of comprehensive intervention in old age, centres of special education and rehabilitation of disabled persons, hostels for passers-by and psycho-social rehabilitation centres, and communities of social intervention.

The OHSJD currently in Spain with more than 11,300 workers and partners, close to 2,000 volunteers, 7,400 beds in its various hospitals and centres, and they manage projects of social action carried out by the grant of income tax that will benefit more than 35,000 people in the various autonomous communities.

Los Hermanos también expusieron la creación de una oficina de la OH en Bruselas, así como la labor que desarrollan en el ámbito de la cooperación internacional en distintos países empobrecidos de América Latina, África y Asia. The OHSJD currently consists of 1,230 brothers, close to 45,000 professionals collaborating with a working link, more than 8,000 volunteers, and numerous benefactors.

The brothers of St. John of God are present in the five continents, in over 50 countries, with 23 religious provinces, 2 General delegations, 7 provincial delegations; They carried out his apostolate for the benefit of the sick, the poor and those who suffer through 293 works.

The hospitaller order of St. John of God is an institution which carried out various social projects, with 500 years of history, present in the five continents of the world attending different intervention areas ranging from surgical medical hospitals, attention to disability, mental health, social exclusion and comprehensive care in old age. Always at the forefront adapting to new needs and demands, being the hospitality the main value and focused on the dignity of persons, which characterizes the work provided in the centres have the hospitaller order.