Missing Hospital Case Study

The relationship between the staff at Missing Hospital and philanthropists in other countries is very secretive and deceitful; as the Missing Hospital fails to use the funding they received appropriately. For example, after Matron receives a call from Eli Harris of the Baptist congregation in Houston, a philanthropist, Matron tells him they have lost a staff member and will be a few days before she can talk with him and hangs up. Soon later, it is said that the financial support given by Eli Harris’s church to fund a program to check on the citywide campaign against gonorrhea and syphilis was never created at the Missing Hospital. Later Matron worries about the support needed to continue its ministry, as she believes that the hospital’s benefactors are likely to believe the hospital is unproductive and failing to own up to their promises. …show more content…
Even more important, she mentions that the hospital might have to close down due to the government that charges hospitals and clinics for the opportunity to serve the country, which is keeps them almost penniless. Surprisingly, Harris mentions that the supplies his church provided for another medical mission were being sold and the police were on the case. After exchanging words between Matron and Harris about differences in Christian beliefs among Ethiopians and Americans, Matron urges him that they are need of supplies and food not more bibles. Harris recognizes his ignorance and admits did not think of the medical establishment’s lack of resources to care for their patients. Ultimately, Matron stresses that the enemy is not money or diseases, but poverty that makes it extremely difficult for Missing hospital to provide adequate treatment for it’s