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Santa Clotilde Hospital / PERU { 36 images } Created 15 Aug 2012

The health center "Neri Ramos Rivadeneyra" in Santa Clotilde is an example of very professional, one of a kind medical attention. Stationed along the Napo River in the Loreto region of Peru, Santa Clotilde is a community that suffers from the typical
Amazonian isolation: no roads and expensive, slow traveling boats.
The people of San Clotilde continue living off a financially unprofitable economy that includes hunting, fishing, gathering and a small amount of crop cultivation.
These factors are why healthcare in the Santa Clotilde region is considered a luxury. Almost no one has the money to travel to Iquitos (the only nearby town) to go to a hospital in the Amazonian jungle and there are many diseases other than the basic health demands such as emergencies and births. Santa Clotilde is a health center that serves as a true hospital, thanks to the professionalism and will of two American Catholic priests. Twenty-five years ago the small local health post was enlarged and transformed into a modern hospital where the hygienic conditions are the same if not better than a public hospital. Currently, the Health Center of Santa Clotilde is the head of a network of health posts in many communities along the Peruvian side of the Napo River. A technical staff led by a group of young, Peruvian professionals attends to dozens of patients per day-- taking advantage of modern, functional equipment and medications. One of the priests (Father Jack) continues to work as a doctor and another (father Mauricio) continues long-distance fundraising. After twenty-five years, the health center "Neri Ramos Rivadeneyra" in Santa Clotilde continues to be a major achievement that benefits a population whose only medical alternatives were visiting a shaman or a taking costly trip to Iquitos.
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  • Doctor (and priest) Jack Mc. Carthy co-founder of  Centro de Salud of Santa Clotilde, during an emergency surgery on a machete wound. Like in many villages of amazonic basin, at Santa Clotilde too the electric lights it's not all the day furnished.
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  • External parts of Santa Clotilde's clinic
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  • External parts of Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • External parts of Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • Inside Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • Inside Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • Inside Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • External parts of Santa Clotilde's "centro de salud" (healt care center)
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  • Doctor (and priest) Jack Mc. Carthy co-founder of  Centro de Salud of Santa Clotilde, during the every morning-briefing with all the Centro's staff
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  • The doctor (and priest) Jack Mccarthy founder of the Health Center of Santa Clotilde, during the tour every morning to check the health of hospitalized
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  • Durante la gira de cada mañana para chequear el estado de salud de los ospitalizados
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  • Much of the patients are children and mothers stay with them during the hospitalization
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  • Day hospital at Santa Clotilde Centro de salud
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  • Day hospital at Santa Clotilde Centro de salud
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  • Day hospital at Santa Clotilde Centro de salud
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  • On the dental lab of Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Doctor Mary Cornejo la Torre during her job at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Dr. Mary teaching at the pre-university course in the same Health Center of Santa Clotilde
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  • Doctor Juan Jon  during his job at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Doctor Juan Jon doing a sonogram  session Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Doctor (and priest) Jack Mc. Carthy co-founder of Centro de Salud of Santa Clotilde, during the every morning-tour of patients.
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  • Doctor (and priest) Jack Mc. Carthy during a  mass in the Santa Clotilde's church
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  • Doctor (and priest) Jack Mc. Carthy co-founder of Centro de Salud of Santa Clotilde, during an emergency surgery on a machete wound. Like in many villages of amazonic basin, at Santa Clotilde too the electric lights it's not all the day furnished.
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  • Emergency surgery at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Emergency surgery at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Birth at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Birth at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Birth at Santa Clotilde centro de saud
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  • Birth at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • Birth at Santa Clotilde Centro de Salud
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  • At Tachsa Curaray's "puesto de salud" (healt care point)
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  • At Tachsa Curaray's "puesto de salud" (healt care point)
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  • At Tachsa Curaray's "puesto de salud" (healt care point)
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  • At Tachsa Curaray's "puesto de salud" (healt care point)
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  • At Tachsa Curaray's "puesto de salud" (healt care point)
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  • Rain on Napo river, Tachsa Curaray village
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