Clinic Program Update

As part of our clinic program, Mano a Mano Bolivia keeps extremely detailed statistics for everything they do, from number of patient visits to vaccinations to outcomes in each of our 120 clinics in operation. To give you an idea of what our clinics do, here are some of the numbers for the first 3 months of 2011 (119 clinics reporting):

• 179,342 patient visits overall. The focus of our clinics is primary care, and particularly maternal & child health, and that is reflected in our visits.
• 49,051 general medicine visits, including 24,504 exams for children under 5

Child and mother waiting to be seen in the La Joya clinic in the department of Chuquisaca

International Conference on Acute Care with Regions Hospital

Last week Mano a Mano hosted 15 doctors, nurses, and health care professionals from Minnesota for a continuing health education conference with our medical staff in Bolivia. This was the fourth conference in the past 2 years that Regions Hospital staff has participated in; hundreds of Bolivian health care professionals attend each conference, including Mano a Mano staff and staff from other organizations throughout the country.

Conference attendees