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Healthcare in Ecuador

In Ecuador we have 2 hospitals, 8 clinics, mobile caravan clinics and various community healthcare projects serving more than 180,000 people each year.  We also have water projects providing clean water to remote villages, and a social outreach for underprivileged people.

healthecHospital Vozandes Quito (HVQ) is a missionary urban general hospital strategically located on the north side of Ecuador’s capital city. The hospital serves as a trauma center and has residencies in family practice and ophthalmology. Current inpatient bed capacity is 74. The original hospital opened in 1955, and it continues to expand in response to the high patient volumes.

Hospital Vozandes del Oriente (HVO) is located at the edge of the Amazon basin in Shell, 150 miles (250 km) southeast of Quito. It is an intermediate healthcare facility that offers general medical, surgical and outpatient services for those living in remote areas. It also offers pastoral services and is a referral facility for other healthcare centres. Inpatient bed capacity is 30. The original hospital opened in 1958 but it was completely rebuilt and the new buildings inaugurated in 1985.

Community Development Vozandes is a department of HCJB Global’s Health Care Division in Ecuador. The work in community development began in 1979 out of a concern to provide preventative and curative health care for rural people in Ecuador who could not easily take advantage of HCJB Global’s two hospitals in Quito and Shell. Community Development Vozandes operates seven urban family practice clinics ; a rural family practice clinic in San Lorenzo; a medical caravan ministry for remote communities; a tropical disease/parasite laboratory; a clean water programme to help communities obtain clean drinking water & sanitation, and programmes to train rural health workers/promoters in several provinces.  
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