Primary Health Care Project II
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General Scope
Timeline: March 2003 - August 2005
Estimated Beneficiaries: 3000 residents of the CPR Communities in the County of Chajul, Quiche, Guatemala
Budget: $ 272,011.00
Contributors: CIDA, Wildrose Foundation, Roncalli Foundation, Clifford E. Lee Foundation, and Sombrilla
Goals
To improve the health conditions and quality of life or remote rural CPR communities.
Purposes
  1. To develop the capacity of the local heath services sector
  2. To promote health enhancing practices and behaviours in the CPR communities
  3. To provide primary health care services in the CPR communities
  4. To establish the necessary health service infrastructure
Main Activities
  1. Hire local staff for the local Health Team
  2. Build and restore Primary Health Care Clinics
  3. Train local staff and community promoters in general health, reproductive health, oral hygiene, basic pharmacology, and natural medicine
  4. Provide bursaries for nursing assistant students
  5. Offer a public health education program
  6. Provide a resource centre for the Health Team
  7. Provide reproductive health services for women
Anticipated Results
  1. There is a dependable professionally trained Health Team capable of attending health needs in the community and educating community members and promoters
  2. Functioning Primary Health Care Clinics posts provide services to the community
  3. Heightened community awareness of preventive health and sanitation matters
  4. Health promoters address the basic health care needs of their communities
  5. Women will have improved access to culturally sensitive family planning services