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The clinic provides 24-7 primary healthcare that includes: Triage, health education and medicine for the impoverished communities around Tola, Nicaragua at a free or low-cost rate. Services provided are free to seniors and children, while adults are on a sliding scale fee basis. The clinic believes in promoting "prevention through education." Therefore, the clinic recently expanded its mission to include working closely with other local community leaders, non-profit organizations and foundations. The joint goal is to educate local citizens on healthy living through building skills, improving sanitation practices and systems, playing sports and participaing in physical fitness.
The Roberto Clemente Health Clinic provides affordable access to high-quality primary health care services and wellness programs in the Tola coastal communities of Nicaragua.
Clinic Primary Program and Mission - Our primary program is to provide affordable access to high quality health care in Limon and surrounding 49 rural communitites on the Southwestern coast of Nicaragua. This includes primary care, diagnostics and urgent care for all ages.Over 27,000 consultations were provided at the Clinic in many services. The patient visits included 8,458 medical attentions, 6,363 nursing procedures, 1,046 lab tests, 102 dental services, and 195 ultrasound services, and 11,627 pharmacy services. In medical evaluations, acute diseases are the most common demand. Respiratory diseases tend to be the most common disease in the area. Included in this group are all the upper respiratory tract pathologies - bacterial, viral and allergic origin. Our primary medical attention program includes free to low-cost distribution, inventory and storage of prescribed and over the counter medicines.In addition, we provided ambulance service for over 245 emergencies, for stabilization at the clinic and when necessary transportation to a hospital, often as hour or more away from the emergency. And we held our annual Health Fair for the community offering many booths that offered free consultations and education, as well as food and activities for the children. About 600 people showed up from many different communities to be a part of this wonderful event.
Padrino Sponsor-a-Child Program - We have 67 children registered in the program from different communities, such as Limon 1, Limon 2, Canas de Garcia, Las Salinas, Virgen Morena, San Ignacio, Las Mercedes, El Asentamiento, among others. Children are matched with volunteers who provide financial sponsorship of monthly healthcare and education costs. The sponsors are called "Padrinos" and they enable each child to have healthcare and a formal education.The Padrino Program handed out uniforms and school supplies to each sponsored child. During the event, they also received physical examinations, laboratory tests, assessments of their nutrition and growth levels, and dental checkups offered by a volunteer from the ARTS (A Reason to Smile) organization.The clinic also partnered with ANF to start a Nutrition Program to fight malnutrition. The ANF Program consists of providing "manapacks" to each child in our Padrino Program, as well as providing grains, cereals and other food supplements to other members of the family. Overall, 46 families and more than 220 people will benefit from this great initiative.
Healthy Eating Initiative - Our enthusiastic gardner, Eliezer, was extremely busy taking care of our organic garden and teaching his valuable knowledge in basic gardening, soil enhancement, nutrition and natural pest control to the community on a daily basis. Through the use of drip irrigation and the arrival of the rainy season, he had our garden looking beautiful most of the year.One of our goals was to teach members of the nearby communities how to grow their own food using the bio-intensive system (organic crops). As a result, we were able to start community gardens benefiting many people in the community - this includes the individuals who attended our workshops on bio-intensive system as well as their family members.As part of the Healthy Eating Initiative, our beekeeping program is growing strong. We've had our challenges las year due to the drought phenomenon in the are for the past three years which directly affected the production of nectar, pollen adn resins.We started with two hives and we are projecting to grow to ten hives. Our beehives are currently solid and our plan is to multiply them little by little; however, our success is strictly linked to climatic behavior. The importance of promoting organic agriculture has special meaning for us and we are determined to continue our arduous efforts.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Lorena Cernadas | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Greg Hunter | Director | 1 | $0 |
| James Lanning | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Antonio Granados | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Donald Ramirez | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Alan Vilchez | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Julia Guth | Chairperson | 5 | $0 |
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