Health, the great patient?translated

By Rev. Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinum Mr. Amfilohiou

Culture, I read somewhere, is the culture of a society, the set of values, knowledge, ideas, traditions, arts and ways of life that a society creates and transmits from generation to generation. The word "culture" is clearly associated with art, intellect, philosophy, technology, but above all with human values. Culture cannot only be museums, ancient monuments, music and literature. It is also and, above all, the way we think, behave, communicate and co-exist with others. It is what man creates, what he believes, what he knows and what he transmits to the next generation, shaping the identity of a society. Therefore, a culture that does not have man at its center, but exhausts itself in economic figures and philosophical-theoretical analyses, ceases to be a culture, as it does not serve man and his needs.

So when a person, the citizen of a society, does not have access to medical care, when their medical needs cannot be met, when an elderly person...