In March, approximately 50,000 digital screens illuminated the facades of the most emblematic buildings of nearly twenty Chinese cities with the faces of healthcare professionals who assisted patients infected with COVID-19. “There is no doubt, medical professionals are the great heroes of this story,” wrote journalist Lea A of redEMC. In fact, Doctor Venancio is one of these heroes.
On 24 January 2019, Dr Venancio ended his mandate as President of the National Association of Past Pupils (both male and female) of Don Bosco, who also chaired the "Alberto Marvelli Foundation", which manages and administers the "Father Bartolomé Ambrosio Vocational Training Center, SDB." “In addition to his professional qualities as a doctor, past pupil and person, Doctor Venancio has a great Salesian formation and human quality,” wrote Raúl Vázquez. And these characteristics, he lives them like a true professional with a Salesian formation in the midst of this pandemic.
“Dr Venancio now works with COVID-19 patients, leaving his family to go to a hospital that is 5 hours from the capital and then he returns to do the same in the hospital that has national responsibility for the infected,” explains Raúl Vásquez, Director of the "Bartolomé Ambrosio SDB Center". “He is always smiling, he always talks about Don Bosco, Artemide Zatti, the Virgin Help of Christians. He is a doctor who lives an extraordinary spirituality and with truly admirable serenity.”
In Guatemala, COVID-19 cases have increased and amounted to 5,500 cases in the last few days. Faced with this situation, Dr Venancio “is a doctor who lives to serve others, he is not a wealthy doctor, his work is among the poorest, among the Salesians, among the seminarians, among the people of the working class, who sometimes can't pay for his service. He is a past pupil of Don Bosco who lives the Salesian education received,” says Mr. Vásquez.
