Rotary Club of Truckee announces that it is the recipient of a District Grant of $2,500 from Rotary District 5190 to help equip new clinics at Hospitalito Atitlan, a rural hospital in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.
The hospital recently expanded its facilities to include four additional clinics, a nursing school and blood bank. The hospital needs specialized medical equipment to make full use of the new clinics expanding services to indigenous women and new-born babies. Together with $2,500 from the Rotary Club of Truckee, the hospital will purchase three Welch Allyn wall mount otoscopes, two lamparas cuella de ganzo (gooseneck lamps), one digital newborn scale, and two medical utility carts.
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