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Chihuahua
Serving San Carlos Indigenous Community Clinic
The most frequent are cases of malnutrition, expressed those in charge of
clinic, Irma Martinez and Angelica Barrera. Photo: El Heraldo de Chihuahua.
She is 50 years
Religious serving more than 5 000 people
El Heraldo de Chihuahua
February 21, 2011
Roc?o Ar?valo Silvia Chacon
Chihuahua, Chihuahua .- Service at the clinic (after recovery) or any food is the how in the inhabitants of Norogachi and 120 nearby communities pay for medical care received at the San Carlos Clinic, staffed by religious.
Conditions such as malnutrition among children and adults, pneumonia and bronchitis are the main conditions for which the Tarahumara come to the clinic, which has 30 beds available for admissions and two doctors for consultation.
Fifty years of service this year marks the hospital located in the Sierra Tarahumara by little more than an hour of Guachochi, the center with the largest indigenous population.
In total last year, the clinic has awarded four thousand 600 queries to the population right there in Norogachi or the other 120 communities that depend on their services for health care.
This is the most immediate attention for the people of that region who can not afford to be transferred to hospitals Guachochi where more capacity.
Walking is made between 20 minutes and up to eight hours, a period it takes to get patients for a consultation with San Carlos, depending on the location of their village of origin, but is next to receive care.
San Carlos Clinic born 50 years ago with the arrival of the first Sisters of Charity from Austria, who just a day after arriving at Norogachi began to facilitate the first consultations in a makeshift space devoid of any equipment.
Since then fought for the creation of a clinic where they could provide good service to patients, especially those most in need of greater poverty.
To date, this health center is the most popular among the people for the solidarity with which supports indigenous people not having money to pay for their treatment, in return they can provide corn, beans or even chicken that the institution needs to feed patients who are then hospitalized.