What medicine did Mother Teresa create?

Answer 1

A:

In 1990, an ambulance in which she was travelling home is reported to have crashed, killing two people. There is no blame attached to this accident, but the Missionaries of Charity office later informed journalists that Mother Teresa had been delivering medicines to the hospital run by her order. However, the only medicine Mother Teresa is known to have permitted in her hospices were mild painkillers such as aspirin. Cancer pain can be unimaginable, but Mother Teresa provided nothing more than aspirin for the pain. She explained, "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering."

Mother Teresa did not prescribe the medication used for her own needs, but accepted what was prescribed for her at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India, where she went for treatment. When Mother Teresa died, her bedroom in the order's Motherhouse had been specially fitted out for her with sophisticated and expensive cardiac equipment.

Colette Livermore, a former nun with the order, says that the sisters were refused quinine, placing them at risk from malaria.

Catholic Answer:

The only pain medications available to Mother Teresa and the vast majority of Indians were mild analgesics such as aspirin. Even major medical facilities found it problematic to obtain opiates and other strong pain killers until 2012. Had Mother Teresa's patients been taken to a registered medical facility they would have received the same medications for pain as provided them by the Missionaries of Charity. The use of aspirin to relieve mild to moderate pain in those suffering terminal cancer remains standard practice worldwide as approved by the WHO.

Mother Teresa did not seek out nor desire the advanced medical care and equipment that was forced on her by others, primarily by her own Missionaries of Charity. They were adamant about prolonging her leadership as long as possible and even refused her request to retire when she was already 80 years old and in poor health

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Answer 2

No, Mother Teresa did not create any new medicines. In fact, India law prevented her from administering anything beyond over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin. Opiates and other strong pain relievers were almost impossible for even major hospitals to obtain.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa had no medical training and did not develop any new medicines. In fact, she refused to treat the inmates of her hospices for the dying with anything other than mild painkillers such as aspirin, even for the terrible pain of cancer. Some of her nuns were trained nurses who could administer opiates, which were available if required.

Answer 4

To help the poor and some of their sickness.