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The Rotary Club of Esteban Echeverria (Club n°) together with the Municipal Polyclinic Sofía Terreno Santamarina and the Department of Health of the Municipality are carrying out a project which we have named Project "C.H.A.A.R.I.M-" which is the abbreviation of the Spanish "Multi-disciplinary Hospital Capture for High Risk Infantile Care". This project is designed to attend outpatients by extending the Hospitalization Facilities outside the actual Hospital environment in order to support the patients after being released from the Hospital. This project is so necessary since the outpatients do not return to the hospital to continue their recommended treatment due to their economic situation and distance from the hospital.
We have attached a video and several photographs which depict in greater detail the motives of the initiative behind this project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpikpkj5AH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5OeHoATk30
The specific objectives of Project C.H.A.A.R.I.N are:
- General
Reduce maternal infantile morbimortality.
1- Avoid re-hospitalizations.
2- Early hospitalization of those who require it
3- Evaluate the presence of new or existent concurrent factors which hamper the recovery of the patient.
- Specific
1- Assist the patient, who has not returned to the hospital after being released and manifests signs of medical or social risk in his or her home.
2- Control the children suffering from a specific pathology with greater frequency. (Example: patients who have consulted the medical staff in the Hospital manifesting chronic respiratory infections)
The following is necessary to accomplish this project:
1) (One) Vehicle equipped for transporting patients and evaluating pediatric outpatients: Cost: U$S 32.225
2) Recondition the vehicle by installing a double row of seats (6 seats).
Cost: U$S 2.500
3) Equipment for the vehicle, Cost: U$S 7525
TOTAL BUDGET (Figure for August 2010):U$S 42.250
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