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Las Animas Healthcare Access

Las Animas, Cedros is a community located at a lower elevation close to a main highway running through the country. This community does not have a health center due to its smaller size.  If they need to see a doctor or dentist, they must travel the mountainous terrain to Cedros, the nearest town with a health center.  This health center is a CESAMO, or the larger of the two different types of health centers the Honduran government offers.  Here, patients can see both doctors and nurses and even possibly a dentist.  Unfortunately, the trip to the health center takes over 1.5 hours on foot.  There are no buses that connect the community with the town that the health center is located in, so the majority of community members must walk to reach the health center.
 

Community Demographics

Las Animas is home to about 120 people and has about 45 homes, with an average of 3 inhabitants per home.  Las Animas is more removed than many communities and there are no buses that connect the community with larger urban areas.  Therefore, they do not have good access to resources outside of the community.  About 10 smaller communities near Las Animas come to receive medical and dental care while brigades are there.

Brigade Site Information

Since this community does not have a health center, we hold brigades at the school. The school is relatively small, with about 4 rooms. Despite the smaller space, we always run a successful brigade.  Doctors spend an average of 10 minutes with each patient and we are able to provide 5-6 educational charlas a day.  Each brigade sees an average of 215 patients per day. Check back soon for pictures of the brigade site!

Current Community Initiatives

No other organizations bring brigades to Las Animas.  Global Brigades has not been able to implement any other projects in Las Animas thus far.

Community Health Statistics

Below is a chart showing the illnesses treated on our most recent brigade to Las Animas.

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

Current Status

Last Visit: 1/21/2014

This past January, a group of students from the University of San Diego traveled to Las Animas, Cedros for their Medical and Dental Brigade.  With 35 student volunteers and the help of local community volunteers, they saw 634 medical patients from 10 different communities over 3 days, as well as 69 dental patients.  They were able to help provide over 20 hours of health education to children and adults in the community.

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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 Las Animas:

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