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AmeriCares Health Clinic
The AmeriCares Family Clinic - Clínica Integral de Atención Familiar - offers a low-cost, high-quality alternative to free public clinics and high-cost private practices. Families throughout El Salvador can receive comprehensive, multidisciplinary medical services including general medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, dentistry as well as health education outreach. The clinic provides approximately 50,000 individual patients with 110,000 medical services each year and serves as a model health care institution for the eastern region of the country. Click here to read more about the clinic »
Emergency Response and Disaster Relief
Located in a region of Central America that is prone to natural disasters, El Salvador is a frequent victim of devastating hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic activity. AmeriCares responds quickly to both natural disasters and medical emergencies that affect the country. In January of 2001, AmeriCares was among the first international aid organizations on the ground after an earthquake killed nearly 800 people. The emergency disaster relief included tents, blankets, medicines and medical supplies, such as sutures, bandages, and other aid.
In early 2005, AmeriCares responded to an outbreak of rotavirus at the request of the Salvadoran Ministry of Health. The disease causes life-threatening diarrhea, vomiting and fever in children under the age of five. Globally, it is a major cause of childhood death, often due to dehydration. AmeriCares swift response provided enough medicines and medical supplies to treat over 200,000 children affected by the serious disease.
Visiting the home of one of our patients in El Salvador was one of my most memorable AmeriCares moments. When Ana welcomed me into her makeshift home, I sat next to her 12-year-old son Miguel, who has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. We did not know each other’s language, but the gratitude he expressed through his warm, knowing eyes needed no translation.
—Curt Welling, AmeriCares president and CEO.
During natural disasters and disease outbreaks, AmeriCares sends additional relief to address the unique medical and humanitarian needs that arise as a result of these destructive events.
Medical and Humanitarian Aid
Active in the country since 1986, AmeriCares is committed to helping El Salvador increase health services to all by expanding access to quality health care for more Salvadorans. As part of this commitment, AmeriCares provides delivers medicines and medical supplies as well as financial assistance. The medicines that AmeriCares delivers to the country each year help supplement pharmacy shortages and provide budget relief. This allows health care providers to care for more patients and invest their limited financial resources in other essential services.
Through two partners, the Asociación Nacional de El Salvador el la Soberana Orden de Malta (ANESOM) and Fundación Salvadoreña para la Salud y el Desarrollo Humano (FUSAL), AmeriCares donations of medicines and medical supplies reach hundreds of health care facilities including hospitals, clinics, health posts and children's and elderly homes.
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