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Honduras' First Garifuna Hospital
More students from Honduras’ Garifuna indigenous communities are enrolled in the Latin American Medical School than studied medicine in the entire history of their country.
The first class graduated in 2005, and immediately went to work with their communities to build the first Garifuna hospital in Honduras, intended as a model for health care in rural areas lacking permanent Honduran medical staff and beds for hospitalization.
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| Hospital inauguration day, December 2007. | New Garifuna MDs on the backroads. |
MEDICC has joined California labor unions, Global Links and other US NGOs to support the hospital and the community-based health care it provides. MEDICC cooperates by financing key infrastructure, equipment, and teaching aids, as well as communications for this effort, located in one of the country’s most remote regions. For more information, see MEDICC Joins Community Celebration at Opening of First Garífuna Hospital in Honduras.
For more information, contact Diane Appelbaum, MEDICC’s US Director.
 Donations to this program support the new Garifuna doctors and help them equip the hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras--serving over 20,000 people--as well aid their local teaching and extension services. |
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