On 2000 Pastoral da Criança was beginning its work on the community Jardim Ouro Preto, São José dos Pinhais, with only two community leaders: Eliane and Sirlei. At the home visits, they found a child on a critical state, needing urgent medical treatment. The mother had practically desisted to take care of the child, thus she though it was germs, even with medicines, the girl wasn't getting better, that was 2 years old and weighted 6 kilograms. So, one of the community leaders proposed to follow up the mother and seek for help to solve the child's problem. After sometime, the situation got severe, the child stopped eating, had a lot of diarrhea and begin to suffer breathing problems. The community leader insisted with the mother to look for medical help and phoned the Health Secretary of the municipality explaining the case. With the mother and the child, the community leader went to the secretary's office that when he saw the child's state phoned immediately to a child's clinic, recommending the child to Dr. Rodolfo care. At the clinic the pediatric doctor made several exams on Letícia and constated that she suffered from celiac illness. Besides this, she was in a profound state of dehydration and low temperature.

Leticia stayed 59 days in the hospital and begun a diet of not ingesting monosodium glutamate at the food. Dr. Rodolfo took care of Letícia for free and said that if it was not Pastoral da Criança the girl would have died in one or two days. Today, Letícia is 5 years old, she is very clever and happy and continues to be followed up by Pastoral da Criança. The community leader Eliane thanks God and the doctor for the interest, believing that this was another great victory of life, typical of Pastoral da Criança.

More information with Clóvis Boufleur, Lilian Cátia de Jesus
telephone: (+55041) 336-0250 or
E-mail: clovis@pastoraldacrianca.org.br e lilian@pastoraldacrianca.org.br

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