Huancavelica
Huancavelica is a State and its capital of the same name seats at 4000 meters high above the sea level. The apartment is inhabited by about 500 000 inhabitants of which total more than 55% are poor and 40% were extremely poor, statistically 15% more impoverished in the world. Most of these are doing subsisting farming or mining handwork. Additionally they raise their own camelids as source of food and wool, for they weave their own clothing. Their access to preventative care is improving but still is not adequate. Their only Hospital in the State has only 120 beds, and still most are empty due to the lack of resources both from the Hospital and the patients. Physicians in the institution live in different cities and travel to work for fifteen days at a time. Very few specialties are offered and although transferring to other cities-hospitals are offered, the poverty conditions of the patients and lack of support for their children and families are forbidding them to use those offers. We give free medical attention and provide the goods that patient and the system can not afford: medications, sutures, surgical supplies, equipment for the Hospital and peripheral clinics. We have resupplied and equipped three operating rooms so far, the Emergency room, partially an adult and a pediatric intensive care unit and many wards with beds, mattresses, linen, gurneys, wheel chairs, ultrasound equipment, surgical instruments and surgical lamps, bowie cauteries and laparoscopic towers and tools. We hope to install a newer X-ray machine and are looking to get a CT scanner, laboratory equipment as well among other tools to enhance the diagnostic ability of our colleagues and the services to the patients, with your help.
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PAMS
Previous Missions in Huancavelica
A program that started in 2006 as a joint effort by Peruvian American Medical Society with support from Ministry of Health of Peru, Social Security System from Peru, Buenaventura Mining Company and Direct Relief International, has achieved already four annual missions, two weeks each one, bringing free medical care to thousands of low income Andean natives, supplies and equipment to the only local Hospital for the State of Huancavelica, and educational and social support to nurses, nurse students, orphans and elderly citizens if the capital city to the State and also to smaller villages of the area. We have been grateful with the support of local professionals from the area, from several Medical Schools both from USA and Peru and several private and charitable organizations from both countries like Americares, and Clinton Foundation.