Ecuador: Vozandes Hospital Shell in Pastaza Province to close doors

Posted on October 2, 2013 • Filed under: Ecuador, Latin America Health

expreso.ec reported that the lack of resources would be the main reason Vozandes hospital closure in the parish Shell, Pastaza Province. Since yesterday started attending as day clinic outpatient, image lab and ophthalmology. While up on Monday worked inpatient services, and emergency surgery.

The day clinic is only until December 31. From that date definitively closed the doors of the house of health, which ran for over 55 years in the parish, said Narcisa Brito, Vozandes hospital administrative manager of the East.

The announcement was issued last week. The center was run by the evangelical mission Jesus Christ Bless Today (HCJB), originating in the United States. They had losses of between 200 and 500 thousand dollars a year, which is why the Board of Mayor HCJB Global mission decided to close the hospital, said Brito. Read Article

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