The Salud Y Bienestar Municipal Clinic is WHITIA’s pilot site for our Guatemala initiative. It is a publically funded clinic by Guatemala City. This Municipal Clinic currently has a patient range of 50-100 people per day in need of X-ray services but since there currently is no system, patients are referred to the Roosevelt Hospital. Here, patients are forced to wait long periods of time to receive an X-ray due to the limited resources in relation to patient density. By supplying the Municipal Clinic with an X-ray system, WHITIA is providing X-ray capabilities in a first referral clinic, eliminating the need to travel to a second location for a diagnosis. This in turn reduces the risks of further injury and delayed diagnosis, providing better patient care as well as faster, more accurate diagnosis.
Funding for this site is attributed to Rotary Clubs in Arlington Heights Sunrise, Des Plaines, Evanston, Mt. Prospect Sunrise, Mundelein-Vernon Hills, Park Ridge and Guatemala Rotary District 4250. For the Salud Y Bienestar Municipal Clinic, WHITIA will be installing a complete digital solution including a Sedecal Optima WHIS-RAD X-ray and a Carestream CR 260 scanner. This digital solution will allow the clinic to send images over a network to be reviewed by radiologists locally as well as internationally for further support. This is an exciting project for WHITIA. This installation will bring our solution to about 50,000 people, the WHO recommended population one system should service.