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 Cumanacoa. We now assist an extended network of public and private health care facilities in three contiguous state counties. 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, in Sucre County
- San Lorenzo, Cocollar, Punto de Cocollar, Aricagua, Arenas, in Montes County
Urban public health facilities:
- Ambulatorio Urbano Fe y Alegría, Cumaná
- Hospital I “Luis Daniel Beauperthuy,” Cumanacoa
- Hospital Julio Rodriguez, Cumaná
Urban private health facilities:
- Clínica San Vincente de Paul, Cumaná
- Clínica Grupo Medico Sucre, Cumaná
- Consultorio Medico Amen, Cumaná
- Clínica Santa Rosa, Cumaná
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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