Health Project MUNISALUD

IN AN EFFORT FOR SATISFAYING THE EVER-GROWING DEMAND for health services of the people of Chimbote, the Provincial Municipality of Santa, led by the Mayoress Mrs. Victoria Espinoza and together with her corresponding team have developed a Health Project called MUNISALUD which is intended to provide such services to population at low cost (half of what patients pay at hospitals of government.)

To achieve that purpose, the Municipality has acquired four buses specially equipped which operate as mobile consulting rooms, laboratory, pharmacy, etc. necessary to attend patients. These buses are located on a side of "28 de Julio" square and in front of Tourists Hotel in Chimbote where patients have to go for medical care.

The coordinator of this project is Dr. Johnny Jesús Cano Suárez who gently received me at his office located in one of the buses and told me that project implementation started on November 12. Medical staff attend patients from Tuesday to Friday from 8:00 am to 1:30 pm. On Saturdays the four buses and medical staff head to poorest neighborhoods of Chimbote to hold health campaigns for free.

Here are the medical services on each bus:

• 1st bus: Emergency Room and Consulting Room (General Medicine 2)
• 2nd bus: Obstetrics, Dentistry and Psychology
• 3rd bus: Laboratory and Consulting Room (General Medicine 1)
• 4th bus: Pharmacy, Ultrasound and MUNISALUD Coordinator's office

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