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Hospital Escuela
Leon, Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan government constructed the Hospital Escuela Dr. Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello in 1979. The hospital's staff strives to assist the ~200,000 people living in the Lé on (the nation's second largest city), as well as the surrounding communities. The hospital is also partnered with the nation's largest medical school, so it also aims to educate Nicaragua's future doctors. The hospital deals with all aspects of medicine, with two notable exceptions: cancer specialties and advanced radiography (the hospital only has an x-ray machine). Although the hospital's doctors all work incredibly hard, a continuous lack of medical supplies, current medical technologies, and training in new techniques and technologies make standard patient care difficult.
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Partner Needs
The hospital needs volunteers (preferably, fully trained nurses or doctors) from all medical specialties to help with daily work. Because the hospital lacks many new medical technologies, the hospital especially needs doctors who own medical instruments and can use these tools to help patients as well as educate the hospital's current doctors. Spanish proficiency is highly recommended, as it will make patient care and professional interactions easier, however, many of the hospital's doctors do speak some English and translators are available for any kind of training that a volunteer may want to provide in English.