Neonatal Equipment for the Paediatric Unit of the Hospital General San Juan de Dios in Oruro

Location: Oruro

Beneficiary: Paediatric unit

Amount: USD 30,000 (thirty thousand US Dollars)

Objective: Replace and expand neonatal equipment for the paediatric unit of the Hospital General San Juan de Dios in Oruro

The Hospital General San Juan de Dios is a public hospital located in Oruro, one of Bolivia's poorest departments. As with most public hospitals in Bolivia today, the HGSJD lacks sufficient public support for financing its most basic needs, let alone the renewal of medical equipment.

The paediatric unit has the physical capacity to care for only 20 new-born babies. The medical staff is composed of: one paediatrician, four certified nurses, and three assistants. At present the paediatric unit is having difficulties maintaining the quality of medical care provided to new-born babies due in part to the obsolescence of its neonatal equipment. As described by Dr. Miguel Gonzales Yucra, Director of HGSJD: "the neonatal equipment is very obsolete and has been used for way over 15 years".

Replacing and expanding the neonatal equipment with reliable and up-to-date equipment will help to improve the quality of care provided to new-born babies; it will reduce the rate of early neonatal mortality; and it will increase the paediatric unit's capacity for caring for more in-patients and out-patients.

Below is a list of neonatal equipment and its estimated cost in US dollars, as described by the pediatric unit of HGSJD:

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