THE CHURCH'S HEALTH-CARE SERVICE PATHWAY TO ACHIEVING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN DEVELOPING NATIONS

Abstract

Environmental sustainability threatens nations; the citizens suffer from health challenges endangering their lives. Invariably, the unhealthy status of the citizens becomes one of the major effects of the environmental challenge ravaging developing and underdeveloped countries. Health-care services are inadequate for the teaming migration to the urban cities and even the residual population in the rural communities; this has resulted in a high mortality rate in pregnant women, children and other avoidable deaths of youths due to sickness. Achieving sustainable development requires an all-inclusive global action to take special care of the poorest and most vulnerable in society. Therefore, by calling and as a community of faith set to protect the most vulnerable and be steward of God on earth, the Church should stand up to this all-inclusive responsibility. There is a need for pro-activeness, self-examination, self-awareness and education on the Church's part on how to be good caretakers of the precious people handed over to the Church. The health care initiative by the Church then becomes her contribution to environmental development and its sustainability.