Project Description Region: South America Country: Uruguay Location: Carmelo Total Budget: $40,870 Area of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment The Hospital Artigas de Carmelo, located in the province of Colonia, Uruguay, was founded in 1934, in order to improve the welfare of the inhabitants of our city and its surroundings. It currently has almost 11,000 users, providing assistance not only to the population of Carmelo, but it is also a Reference Hospital for users of its area of ​​influence, so it reaches a population of 20,000 inhabitants. Belonging to the ASSE Network (State Health Service Administration) as well, it also receives users from all over the Province of Colonia. It is a Polyvalent Hospital, 2nd. Level of Attention, counting on almost all the Specialties Medical Surgical. It has a Surgical Block that has been evolving in terms of Surgical Technology and Procedures, performing at the moment, for example Laparoscopic Surgeries and Bariatric Surgery. The latter procedure is provided to users throughout the country, who belong to ASSE, this hospital being one of the three that perform it in the whole Territory. It performs almost 600 surgeries per year and 230 childbirths and cesareans. Our Surgical Block has two operating rooms, one that is in operation and the other that is scheduled to be working next year. This Surgical Block has an Anesthesia Cart of English origin and is approximately 14 years old, having exceeded its useful life according to standards. Although it has had failures, it has been sent to repair in several occasions, what has allowed us to continue working. In cases in which it is sent to repair, the Hospital has to rent a machine while it returns repaired.To grow in technical quality to provide users of our Hospital with the highest safety and quality in terms of anesthetic-surgical procedures performed in our Surgical Block. Make sure that our anesthesiologists have the necessary working tools for the well performance of the specialty, and always with the objective of providing maximum safety and quality of service to our patients, both adult and pediatric population. SUSTAINABILITY: The Hospital will take care of preventive and corrective maintenance of the equipment, assuring that it will be used exclusively by suitable professionals in its management, in this case anesthesiologists of the Institution Primary Host Partner District: 4970 Rotary Club of: Carmelo Primary Contact: Carlos Bujan Email: bujanrot@hotmail.com Primary International Partner We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. Recording a pledge will make you the Primary International Partner for this project. Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #40870.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Carmelo (4970) 15-Nov-17 $2,870 $4,000 $6,870 Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $19,044 - $19,044 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $10,957 $4,000 $14,956 Total $40,870 Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries 15-Nov-17 by Bruno Spremolla System Entry: Creation of project page. 2-Sep-18 System Entry System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.