By Joseph Parker | Executive Director
It has been an exciting start to the year for HOLA. The La Ceiba clinic has seen increasing patient counts month over month. In total, Dr. Zelaya has conducted 67 patient consultations at this location through the end of March. Our clinics in Chacraseca and La Leona have seen 148 patients and 117 patients respectively, for a grand total of 332 patient consultations through the first quarter of this year. We are immensely proud that our clinics continue to provide so many women with improved access to specialized obstetric and gynecological care and we are actively seeking a fourth location to expand into. This past month, HOLA has also funded to purchase of 400 speculums and 5 headlamps for The Ministry of Health to help keep their clinics fully stocked.
In partnership with the Denver based non profit Motherwise, we have continued to implement a new curriculum designed to empower women and their families to thrive during pregnancy and after a new baby is born. Our fourth cohort is underway with ten families in attendance. Data is being reported back to the Motherwise team in real time to allow us to better understand how we can continue to shape and adapt our teachings to be as impactful as possible.
Finally, we are thrilled to announce that this Summer HOLA will be taking volunteers back to Nicaragua. Between August 20th and August 27th our volunteer team will be shadowing Nicaraguan physicians, participating in veterinary clinics and collecting key data that will aid the expansion of our OB/gyn program and lay the groundwork for a new initiative aimed at reducing unintended teen pregnancy counts in the communities we serve.
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