A generosity beyond our imagination
A message in December 2024 immediately caught my attention. “I have a large amount of money that I could make available to Diospi Suyana…!” After that the emails went back and forth. Finally, late in the evening on January 14, 2025, I visited the gentleman in question in southern Germany. As it turned out, the father of several families had been following Diospi Suyana’s fortunes for years. His wife had even visited the missionary hospital once in her youth.
The children were lying in their beds. A nice atmosphere, a warm cup of tea and a warm conversation. I was already a little tired from a long day’s driving, but what I was about to hear immediately perked me up again. “We’re currently building a house for our family,” the young man explained to me, “of course we could install luxurious bathrooms and invest the money in a nicer kitchen. But we deliberately don’t want to do that. That’s why we would like to support a special project. My wife and I are thinking of X amount of money!”
As our current CT scanner had reached the end of its service life, we needed a new device. The market price was somewhere beyond good and evil, in any case beyond the financial means of our association. I explained our work in Peru five times in a presentation to the relevant decision-makers at Siemens. And it became clear once again that even a large corporation is made up of people with feeling and heart. Prof. Dr. Michael Uder, head of the radiology department at Erlangen University Hospital, mysteriously organized the appointments with the high-ups at the top levels.
After the last meeting in June I mentioned the generous offer from the family from southern Germany who, despite building their own house, wanted to give Diospi Suyana a huge helping hand. – 12 days went by and Siemens lowered the price to exactly the amount of the announced donation. On June 26, I signed the purchase contract in Erlangen. We received approval for the press release yesterday and a few hours later the young couple transferred the promised sum.
So today we would like to thank our friends from southern Germany who, despite their own construction project, have done something unprecedented. But the Siemens company also went above and beyond. The fact that the price also includes sea and land transportation, as well as installation and insurance, is more than just a little icing on the cake.
In the end Diospi Suyana paid nothing for the high-quality CT. We, that is our poor patients, are the beneficiaries. With such a wonderful turn of events, we thank God who arranged everything so perfectly. He writes stories that are definitely not of this world. /KDJ
(Picture above: The picture above shows a CT scanner of the Somatom go.Up model. If everything goes according to plan, such a device will be in our hospital in four months).
