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San Geronimo Healthcare Access

San Geronimo is a community located in the South of Honduras near the Pacific Ocean.  San Geronimo has a CESAR, or the smaller of the two different types of health centers that the Honduran government provides.  Here, patients may seek consultations from nurses only.  Dental care is not available at the health center. If patients need to see a doctor or dentist they must travel to a CESAMO in Nacaome or San Lorenzo, one of two nearby municipalities.  To reach these health centers community members must take a bus up to 30 minutes or walk up to 2 hours.

Community Demographics

San Geronimo is home to about 1,329 people and has about 265 homes, with an average of 5 inhabitants per home.  San Geronimo is located close to our Global Brigades compound in South Honduras and community members have decent access to San Lorenzo, a major urban area.  During brigades, patients come from over 5 different communities to receive medical and dental care.

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Brigade Site Information

The brigade is held at the school since it has much more space than the health center.  This school serves not only children from the community but children from many surrounding communities, therefore it has ample space with 17 schoolrooms available for brigades.  Check back soon for photos of the brigade site!

Current Community Initiatives

Save the Children currently also has programs running in San Geronimo, focusing mainly on childhood education and nutrition.  No other communities bring medical/dental brigades to the community.  Global Brigades has not yet been able to implement any other programs in this community.

Community Health Statistics

Below is a chart showing the illnesses treated on our most recent brigade to San Geronimo.

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

Current Status

Last Visit: 2/27/2014

This past May, a group of volunteers from Mount Allison University visited San Geronimo on their brigade.  With the help of both Honduran and Canadian health care professionals, they saw a total of 648 patients over two days, including 99 dental patients.  Patients came from 4 different surrounding communities to receive medical care on the brigade.

Visit Other Programs in San Geronimo

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 San Geronimo:

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