This project seeks to guarantee access to specialized medical care for low-income patients, residents of the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, through the PAPI assistance fund, aimed at offering financial support to families who cannot cover the recovery fee, for the payment of pediatric consultations and / or subspecialty of your child.This project will provide health services for 200 economically vulnerable children and youth in the region of Baja California.
The demand for health and social welfare services of children and adolescents in the region of the Californias (Mexico-United States) has exceeded the government's capacity to address this right, with the economically vulnerable population being the most affected. Children who are born poor are almost twice as likely to die before five years as those of the richest families, inequalities persist in access to health care, data presented by the Sustainable Development Agenda.
The Children's Hospital of the Californias, is aligned to SDG 3 "Health and well-being". The institution was born with the objective of providing access and increasing the coverage of basic and specialized medical consultation services for children and adolescents from 0 to 18 years of age regardless of their socioeconomic status, religion or nationality in the city of Tijuana, Baja California.
If there is a deterioration in the child's health, whether due to illness and/or accident, the patient receives specialized medical attention to diagnose his illness and receive adequate treatment for the condition that affects him, recovering his health and returning to his usual life, this It occurs without the patients having to interrupt their treatment due to lack of financial resources, the patient and the family have access to a space that offers them such services.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
