By Griselda Fernandez Haddad | Project Leader
Providing medical services in marginalized areas
During these last five months, the Mobile Medical Unit of Un Buen Grupo de Amigos, A.C. toured states of Puebla, Tlaxcala and Morelos. The Mobile Medical Unit offered health services of first and second level of medical care, dental interventions, dental prostheses, electrocardiography, ultrasonography, physical rehabilitation, dental prostheses, as well as the delivery of complete treatments (medications) to patients attended and orthoses as wheelchairs, to those who requested it and justified the use of them.
The selection and programming of locations was carried out according to recent reports of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in localities whose poverty index is high.
The Foundation provided "Humanitarian Aid in the area of Health" to those who were part of the Caravan of Central American Migrants, who on their way through the City of Puebla, needed health services, with quality and in a complete state (with medication), in a timely and free way,
The Foundation carried out an intense humanitarian work with its own team of doctors, dentists, nurses and health promoters. We continue to serve people in indigenous populations, such as Mrs. Celia, from the Barrio de San Nicolás Coatepec, in the Nahuatl indigenous language, she mentions us "Thank you very much for putting yourself in our shoes and supporting us with doctors in our dialect, who understand our roots and take care of our teeth and our health. Now I feel better and I can do more things "
Some figures of attention to from January to May are.
Total Free Health Services 2,044
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