Health and Social Services
Clockwise from top: Staff and clients at the public Nurucual Ambulatorio (walk-in clinic); Clients at the public Julio Rodriguez Hospital in Cumaná with Dr. Maria Eugenia Yañez, the Foundation’s director of reproductive health; Clients at the rural Ambulatorio at Barrancas.
The Foundation opened its first family planning clinic in 1997 at the public hospital in the farming town of Cumanacoa. We now assist an extended network of public and private health care facilities in the Sucre state capital of Cumaná as well as Cumanacoa, and in the rural counties which surround them. The Foundation is in close touch with the medical staff at each site, and supplements family planning materials and personnel as necessary to maintain and enhance reproductive health services for the public.
Our partners include:
Rural public health facilities:
- Los Frailes, Pantanillo, Los Ipures, Barrancas, San Fernando de Tataracual, Rancheria, Santa Ines, Rio San Juan, in Sucre County
- San Fernando, Barrio Adentro, Rio Arena, Cedeño, Pie de Cuesta, Quebrada Seca, Arenas, Agua Blanca, San Lorenzo, Cocollar, Punto de Cocollar, Aricagua, San Juanillo, Los Dos Rios in Montes County
Urban public health facilities:
- Ambulatorio Urbano Fe y Alegría, Cumaná
- Hospital Julio Rodriguez, Cumaná
- Hospital I “Luis Daniel Beauperthuy,” Cumanacoa
Urban private health facilities:
- Clínica Grupo Medico Sucre, Cumaná
- Consultorio Medico Chavelo, Cumaná
- Clínica San Vincente de Paul, Cumaná
- Clínica Santa Rosa, Cumaná
- Cooperativo Montes, Cumanacoa
State government facilities:
- Municipio Sucre Ministerio de Salud Publica (Sucre County Public Health Ministry)
- Oficina Estatal de Asuntos de Género y Mujer (State Office of Women and Gender Issues)
- Concejo Municipal en Defensa de Niños y Adolescentes (County Council for the Protection of Minors)
One of our family planning clients undoubtedly speaks for many when she says, “The major reality in my life – my fertility – will no longer dominate everything with a new child every few years, Si Dios Quiere (Godwilling).”
- Family Planning: Our Story in Numbers
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