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June
Russel-Glennon Clinic and Community Center
The June Russel-Glennon Clinic
and Community Center was
 completed
in November 2004,
and opened part-time in the spring of 2005. It was opened five days
a week October 1, 2005, as an operating clinic on its ground floor.
It's second floor is home to Xela Aid's Study Center. The faciity is
located in the community of San Martin Chiquito, 60 miles from
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
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This long-needed facility serves 30,000 people in San Martin
Chiquito and surrounding communities as a medical clinic, health and
environmental education learning and literacy center, and as a
community gathering place. It is currently serving as a sanitary
birthing facility to a group of 40
midwives who jointly deliver approximately 2,800 children each year.
It serves as the Xela Aid base of operations during visits and
clinics, and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday-Friday with
emergency services available on-call and a dentist on site once a
week.
The Clinic provides medical,
dental, optometry, maternity and general medicine services. Paid
Staff includes a facility director, medical doctor, and a live-in
"guardian."
Volunteer groups are welcomed to
visit the facility during a pre-arranged visit [contact
Leslie
Baer Dinkel]. The facility is well equipped, largely with the
help of Direct Relief
International, one of Xela Aid's founding partners.
Additionally, there is a pharmacy, a learning room where
capacitaciones, trainings are held monthly on topics spanning
midwifery and hygiene to candle-making and sewing. There are also
bathrooms and showering facilities, hot water, storage, and
guardian's quarters complete with a full traditional kitchen [added
July 2006].
Xela Aid's Clinic
serves hundreds of people in great need each month, and is a base of
operations for regional vaccination efforts. It is a distribution
center for disease-preventing vitamins, provides family planning
services, and is a shelter and operations hub for relief efforts in
times of inclement weather and natural disaster. With a good
business plan in place that creates revenues through sublet to a
laboratory, and a modest stream
of income from exams offered at Q10 (a tenth of the normal average
cost), the clinic is already partially self-sustaining.
Prescriptions are filled free of charge. Help us keep the clinic open by becoming a
sustaining member of the KCO Club. Read more at
KCO Club or
DONATE NOW and we'll add you to our family of sponsors. Your
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