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Centro Medico Humberto Parra Documentary
Mike Helenek made an excellent documentary about the clinic. View the videos in the video section, or watch the whole thing at the link.
More InfoOur Chronic Care Video
Villagers are learning to take control of their diabetes and hypertension as part of Centro Médico’s innovative chronic care program. Our video segment highlights the joint effort of the clinic and communities to provide and encourage long-term care for patients living with two of Bolivia’s most common health challenges.
More InfoBolivian girl born on airliner to fly free until 21
A bolivian girl was born on a TAM flight after her pregnancy was unnoticed due to a baggy sweater. Baby was named Tami, and earned free flights and a college scholarship
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?
July, 2000
The clinic recieved land to build on donated from Milton Parra. The clinic will be named Centro Medico Humberto Parra in honor of Milton's Father.
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Centro Medico volunteers reach out to Bolivian teenagers through sexual health education
In July 2006, after spending three months in Bolivia, Sharon Hopkins, a Master of Social Work student from Nova Scotia, Canada, along with excellent help from American volunteer medical students Melissa Marinelli, Ben Gray, Lisa Jager and Lavinia Sinitean and clinic nurse Guinda Vallejos Guerra, delivered six sexual health education presentations to junior high and high school students in the towns of Yapacani and Buena Vista. The presentations were part of a sexual health project that Sharon conducted for Centro Medico Humberto Parra.
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
Care at Centro Médico Continues Despite Torrential Downpours, a Bridge Collapse and Knee-deep Mud
Anyone who has worked at Centro Médico knows that one of the biggest challenges to providing patient care is not lack of supplies or funds but Mother Nature. Since February 2007, wet summer weather has resulted in treacherous road conditions forcing Centro Médico to move house and operate out of the small government-supported medical post in the village of Palacios
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