Tim Tebow Opens Hospital In Southern Philippines For Kids With Orthopaedic Ailments

Four years after he promised to build an orthopaedic hospital in Davao City, Philadelphia Eagles football player Tim Tebow made true his vow by formally opening last week the Tebow CURE Hospital. The medical centre has five floors, 30 beds and three operating rooms.

It offers free treatments to children suffering from knock knees, bowed legs and neglected clubfoot. Adults in need of total joint replacements or arthroscopic surgery, spine conditions and sports injuries could avail of orthopaedic consultations and procedures in the hospital at competitive prices.

Life News reports that the hospital was built and is being run by CURE International in cooperation with the Tim Tebow Foundation. The foundation, which announced the hospital in 2011, broke ground in January 2012 and completed the construction in September 2014.

Tebow, known for his kneeling position – called Tebowing – before starting a game, was born in Manila in 1987 to American parents who were Baptist missionaries in the Philippines. Having grown in the Southeast Asian country, Tebow said he always had a great love and passions for the Filipino people and opening the hospital provides the foundation the opportunity to provide healing and care for Filipino kids.

Dale Brantner, representative of the foundation who attended the formal opening of the hospital, said, “After many years of prayers and so much hard work, I am thrilled to be able to say the Tebow CURE Hospital is officially open. In this place, we will share the love of Jesus and bring physical healing to children and families who desperately need it,” quotes ABS-CBN.

The world would have never known Tim had his mother, Pam, given in to pressure from local doctors who recommended that she abort the foetus inside her when she was afflicted with dysentery. Mother and baby survived the health crisis.

In 2010, Pam and Tim entered into a partnership with Focus on the Family which shared their miraculously story in a Superbowl commercial. Pro-life groups have given their thumbs up to the advert seen by millions of Americans.

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