Originally, hospitals were pilgrim's hostels ("domus hospitalis" literally means "guest house"), and extended there service to ill, disabled, old and poor people over the time. All hospital foundations in Europe and America prior to the 19^th century and most prior to the 20^th were founded by organisations with a Christian background, aka Catholic orders, Protestant churches and charities.

There are/were quite a few Catholic orders entirely devoted to hospital work. The address "Sister" for a nurse is a relict from the time when all hospital nurses were nuns.

The idea, that the secular state could be responsible for the health of it's citizen and invest into hospital building is quite recent.

There must be some reason or history to it.

Inherently ultra-authoritarian organization wants an effective way to brainwash and threaten children into joining their cult forever. Government officials ignore constitution as well as all common sense and decency to let them.

That's the reason and the history in full.

Edit: oops, that's the reason for catholic SCHOOLS! My bad.

The reason for catholic hospitals is that a super-rich multinational corporation talked government officials into letting them get free branding.

I choose to believe that it's intentional to illustrate the fact that he's a dickhead.

St. God's Memorial Hosp i tal

Dude... 🤦