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Casillas Healthcare Access

Casillas is a community located in the municipality of Talanga in the department of Francisco Morazán. The community has access to a local health center that is about an hour 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. Should a visitor to the health center require more medical attention than can be given at the center, community members can travel to the hospital in Choluteca most commonly by bus. Overall, El Tamarindo has a decent health center that is readily accessible.

Community Demographics

Casillas is home to about 300 people and has about 70 homes, with an average of 4 inhabitants per home. It is the located in the woodland mountains of Central Honduras. Since the health center is in Talanga, this community must travel to there to seek care.

Brigade Site Information

Since space is limited in the health center, brigades are held at the school. The school is medium sized and the classrooms are close to one another, with rooms for triage, consultation and pharmacy, a small kindergarten room for Dental, and plenty of outdoor space for charla and Data Informatics. 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. Below are some pictures of the Brigade Site:

Current Community Initiatives

No other community initiatives currently operate in Casillas.

Community Health Statistics

Below is a chart showing the illnesses treated on our most recent brigade to El Espinal.

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

Current Status

Last Visit: 4/10/2015

This past Feburary, a group of volunteers from New York Medical College visited Casillas on their brigade.  With the help of both Honduran and US health care professionals, they saw a total of 635 medical patients over three days, as well as 73 dental patients.

Visit Other Programs in Casillas

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 El Espinal:

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