Spotlight
The Centro Médico Patient Fund!
Centro Médico’s mission is to help members of our communities lead healthy lives. As part of this commitment, we arrange and fund extensive and long-term treatment, including pace maker insertions, cancer treatment, dialysis, joint replacements, HIV therapy and more. As the needs of our patients grow, we need your help to continue helping them. Please make future care possible by adopting a patient through our patient fund. Learn the stories of individual patients and then contribute to the care of a specific patient.
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View up-to-date photos of the clinic, our recent volunteers and clinic related events.
More InfoBolivia: Evo Morales on the Daily Show
Blogs like Comunica Bolivia provided a bit of background information about the program in anticipation of the appearance. But see the full interview at the link.
More InfoCentro Medico Humberto Parra
Centro Medico Humberto Parra strives to improve the health and well-being of poor rural Bolivian communities.
Centro Medico provides free primary healthcare, medication, health education and other health services to people who would otherwise not be able to afford them. The clinic works in partnership with the surrounding communities to enable them to lead healthy lives. Centro Medico is primarily staffed by volunteer American and Bolivian physicians and is entirely funded by private donations from Bolivia and the United States.
What's New?
June 19, 2008
Centro Medico is currently hosting the International Service Immersion trip for first year medical students at Loyola University. ISI is a service learning trip focused on cultural immersion and bringing health care to rural areas around the globe. This is the first time the ISI participants have had the opportunity to visit Bolivia, and will be spending 3 weeks visiting, caring, and learning from for the communities surrounding the clinic.
Top Stories
Centro Médico’s Female Patients: Investigating Women’s Health at the Clinic
Centro Médico volunteer Julia Chu, a Northwestern University medical student spends three months at the clinic conducting a research study on rural women's attitudes toward birth spacing and contraceptive use
Leading the Way to Sustainability, Bringing Clean Energy to Palacios
Health, energy, and poverty are inextricably linked. By providing more healthy and secure livelihoods in the surrounding communities, Centro Medico Humberto Parra plays a pivotal role in enabling local economic development. Going a step further, the clinic strives to contribute to long-term health and sustainable development through environmental leadership. Centro Medico’s commitment to environmental leadership has been evident from the beginning; a founding principle of the clinic is to preserve local ecosystems and use natural resources as efficiently as possible.
Matico? Clavo de olor? Sangre de Grado? Investigating Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices in Centro Médico’s Communities
What is matico or clavo de olor? What kind of a remedy is sangre de grado, or what does tree bark treat? These are questions that US volunteer and first-year Northwestern University medical student, Yuna Rapoport, is asking as part of a study on traditional health beliefs, remedies and medical practices in Centro Médico’s 11 communities.
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