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Priorities

Priorities established for San Antonio...

The central government sends to San Antonio crucial child and maternal inoculations. It provides a nurse and "health providers" with very limited training and some medications, but no means of making diagnoses and matching the medication to the problem. In case of dire emergency, hospital care is reachable by private airplane - if the weather is clear and the $300 fare is available.

Nueva Salud, working with the villagers, targeted these priorities:

Ventilation-improved latrines that can be kept clean, are odor free, and prevent insects from returning to the households
Concrete, fuel-efficient stoves that send smoke outside the house
Clean water free of pathogens and parasites
Ongoing training for the nurse and health promoters
Access to a basic clinical laboratory to refine diagnoses
Family planning to prevent the growth of the population beyond the resources of the village

And absolutely essential to a self-sustaining system is a corps of indigenous trainers to maintain the advances.