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Agua Caliente Healthcare Access

Agua Caliente is a community located in the southern region of Honduras in the municipality of Choluteca. The community has access to a local health center that is at most a 20 minute walk for community members. This local health center is known as a CESAMO, which is the larger of the two different types of health centers provided by the government. It is usually staffed by at least one doctor and several nurses. On occasion, community members have access to a dentist.
 

Community Demographics

Agua Caliente is home to about 2,600 people and has about 326 homes, with an average of 8 inhabitants per home.

Brigade Site Information

Since space is limited in the health center, brigades are held at the school. Doctors spend an average of 10 minutes with each patient and volunteers are able to provide 5-6 educational charlas a day.  Each brigade sees an average of 300 patients per day.

Current Community Initiatives

There are currently no initiatives taking place in Agua Caliente.

Community Health Statistics

Below is a chart showing the illnesses treated on our most recent brigade to Agua Caliente.

Below is a chart showing the dental procedures performed on our most recent brigade to Agua Caliente.

Current Status

Last Visit: 8/3/2014

This past August , a group of volunteers from University of Burmingham UK visited Agua Caliente on their brigade.  With the help of Honduran health care professionals, they saw a total of 690 medical patients over the clinic days, as well as 159 dental patients.

Visit Other Programs in Agua Caliente

Global Brigades strives to implement a model of Holistic Development in communities through a system of collectively implementing health, economic, and education initiatives to strategically meet a community's development goals. Learn more about the other programs being implemented in Agua Caliente:

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