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Community clinics in Ecuador

These are family practice and eye clinics that bring affordable, Christ-centered medical care primarily to poor people in Quito and other cities of Ecuador. Medical staff see about 65,000 patients a year, including those coming for dental work, lab tests and physiotherapy. Most clinics are managed by graduates of the family practice residency programme at Hospital Vozandes Quito . Specialists such as orthopedic surgeons and ophthalmologists also see patients in our clinics.

Vozandes Family Practice clinics were born as a response to the need to place the family practice doctors and healthcare workers that Hospital Vozandes was training. The primary goal of all of our family practice clinics is to serve the poor with quality healthcare. Meeting this physical need gives us a great opportunity to share the Gospel. Hopefully, people will find both physical and spiritual healing when they walk through the door of one of our clinics.

Four of the clinics are legally and financially independent of HCJB. The South Clinic, the La Gasca Clinic, the Carcelen Clinic, and the Santo Domingo Clinic all still receive donated items such as medicines and supplies through Vozandes Community Development, and missionaries working with HCJB Global still go to these clinics to serve. They each carry the name of Vozandes and have a contract with HCJB Global stating that they will maintain low costs for healthcare while maintaining the quality of healthcare that Vozandes has come to stand for. It is our goal that all of our clinics would one day be independent legally and financially like these four clinics, and we are working towards that goal.

The clinics are:

La Y (Quito): Just a block from Hospital Vozandes-Quito, began as a place to help family practice residents get established and reduce congestion in the hospital. Includes a vaccination site, mini-laboratory and dentistry facilities. Also serves large companies with employee healthcare programmes.

Del Sur (Quito): Serves a poor neighbourhood of south Quito, offering a wide range of medical and dentistry services. The clinic is being remodelled and expanded through generated income and the help of short-term teams from abroad. Plans are to include outpatient surgery, OB/GYN (including delivery) and A&E. It became self-administering and self-financing in March 2004, but is still under HCJB Global’s umbrella.

Carapungo (Quito): Offers a variety of outpatient services such as medical attention for emergencies and other subspecialties such as gastroenterology, dentistry, orthopedics, psychology and a hospice day-clinic. Educational programmes are also available.

La Gasca (Quito): Near a major bypass in west Quito, makes affordable healthcare accessible to low- and middle-income families in the area. Became self-administering and self-financing in April 2003, but still under HCJB Global’s umbrella.

Atucucho (Quito): Serves one of Quito’s neediest neighbourhoods, providing services in family medicine and dentistry.

Carcelén (Quito)

Santo Domingo (Pichincha province)

Pifo (45 minutes east of Quito)

San Lorenzo (Esmeraldas province): Near Ecuador’s northwestern coast, this clinic began as a centre for the treatment of eye disease. It also offers general medical care, dentistry, general surgery and continued care of ophthalmologic disease. An extension to the building is currently underway to house the growing children’s and ladies’ groups that meet there.