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Centro Medico Humberto Parra


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Centro Medico Humberto Parra was created to provide basic health care, preventive medicine and health education for people in rural areas outside of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.  Santa Cruz is the second largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 1.1 million. The clinic is located outside a small village called Palacios, 72 miles from Santa Cruz and provides health care to those who normally would not be able to afford it. With facilities for basic patient care, the clinic enables the people of the nearby villages to lead healthy lives.

Centro Medico Humberto Parra is entirely funded by donations from Bolivia and the United States. After opening in 2001, we have expanded our facilities, and have influenced hundreds of lives.

  • Volunteers help fight diabetes and hypertension in clinic communities

    Two summers ago, clinic volunteers and American medical students Lisa Jager and Sara Medendorp were out of bed before sunrise and tracking blood sugars and blood pressures before 7:00 am. Lisa and Sara, who had just finished their first year of medical school, visited the rural villages of Arboleda, Buena Vista and Yapacani every other week to combat diabetes and hypertension, two extremely common health challenges in Bolivia.

  • La Hoguera, the Centro Medico children’s library, is an opportunity for learning

    It is not just checkups and medicine that draws kids to Centro Medico Humberto Parra. Thanks to American medical student and clinic volunteer Jason Oppenheimer, children can now read, receive homework help and explore their inner artist at the clinic’s very own library, La Hoguera, which is Spanish for “the hearth.”

  • LOCAL FACES- Meet our treasured voluntarias from Palacios: Zoila, Ibania and Veronica

    Over 100 American volunteer medical students, healthcare workers and doctors have come and gone at Centro Medico Humberto Parra, but there are several young indispensable volunteers from the town of Palacios who have been working at the clinic every week since 2002!


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