The Clinic at La Guacamaya:
The village of La Guacamaya is about 25 minutes south of the city of El Progreso, Department of Yoro, Honduras. It has approximately 6,000 residents. The service area is around 14,000 people including the village of La Victoria which is a 3 hour trek into the mountains. The clinic will soon have 5 full and part time employees, including a physician, a nurse, an office assistant and 2 promatoras. The clinic itself is 2,400 square feet with five exam rooms, an optometry consult room, a dental chair, a pharmacy, three bathrooms, a large waiting area and some laboratory equipment. It has access to running water and electricity. Salud Juntos will be sending at least two brigades a year of specialized physicians and medical students to La Guacamaya, as well as, continuing to support the ongoing local medical presence.
The Clinic at Punta de Ocote:
The village of Punta de Ocote is about 20 minutes west of the town of Yoro, Department of Yoro, Honduras. It has about 850 residents and a service area of approximately 3,500 people in 9 aldeas. The clinic currently has 2 full time nurses. It is a small clinic with about 700 square feet, including a waiting area, a storage room, a triage room and a consult room. Salud Juntos sent its first brigade to Punta de Ocote in January 2009.
A clinic visitor during the 2010 brigades checks out a new pair of glasses.
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Salud Juntos has now now been directly or indirectly responsible for over 11,000 patient visits.
Brigades for January 2010
We completed two one week brigades in January. The first brigade, a vision clinic, from January 4th to 9th was led by Joseph Miller, MD an ophthal-mologist from the University of Arizona. He was joined by two ophthalmology residents, Leslie Garay, MD, and Carmen Felix Tacononte, MD. They were assisted by Laura Miller. Over the course of the week they saw 225 patients, many having unusual conditions, especially useful for ophthalmology training. During the second brigade of January Mindy Fain, MD led the general medicine brigade to Punta Ocote Jan 25-29th. She was assisted by Ana Sanguineti, MD a current fellow at the University of Arizona, and Alejandro Sanguineti, MD, a pediatrician from Tucson, AZ who conducted a children's clinic. Also participating were Sheridan Reiger, Executive Director, Becca Mandel, and Dale Reiger. Over the course of the week they worked side-by-side with the the clinic nurse and community health providers, and provided care for over 240 patients. Read more
Future Brigades Information
Terry Tack, OD will be conducting a short vision clinic in February at La Guacamaya. He will be assisted by Ruth Ann Tack, Sheridan Reiger, Executive Director and Robin Bigelow, Assistant Executive Director.
Another short general medicine brigade to Punta Ocote will be led by Mary Kay O'Neill, MD in March. She will be joined by Jeff Harris, MD, MPH. Assisting them will be Sheridan Reiger and Robin Bigelow.
Further Plans are being made for our June brigades.