This project will provide two new birthing rooms and a surgery suite for the medical clinic in Chisec, Guatemala. Each year, this clinic serves over 30,000 indigenous people from the surrounding 180 villages. The current birthing room is old and ill-equipped, and there is no surgery room in the facility, forcing the transport of serious cases almost 2 hours through the mountains to reach a hospital. This project will support more healthy births and enable serious cases to be treated locally.
The clinic supports more than 750 live births annually, but many births still occur in dirt-floor homes in local villages. The birthing room at the clinic is old, poorly equipped, and has limited capacity. Also, the clinic has no surgery facility, forcing almost 800 serious cases annually to be transported to a hospital in the back of a crude ambulance almost 2 hours through the mountains. This is dangerous and time-consuming, and many people do not even try since it is difficult.
The new birthing rooms will more than double the maternity capacity of the facility, and provide women in labor with a comfortable and hygienic environment. The new surgery suite will allow the clinic director to obtain a "hospital" classification from the government, leading to the provision of additional doctors, as well as provide a modern facility in which those doctors can provide the required medical care without the need for long rides through the mountains - saving many lives each year.
This project is part of AgInno Institute's multiphase plan to significantly upgrade the capability of the clinic. Previously, we renovated the patient intake area and the administration area and built a large storage building on the site. Once the birthing and surgery rooms are operational, we next will double the size of the emergency area and upgrade the sterilization infrastructure in the clinic. Long-term, we envision this clinic as a fully functioning, modern hospital.
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