Clinicas Móviles

Mobil Clinics is a project run out of the Santa Barbara hospital which sends doctors and nurses to communities in Santa Barbara without access to primary health care. The Agua Pura team met with them to figure out which communities they work with and how our organizations could collaborate. Currently, we have one overlapping community with the Carroll Creek Matching Grant and will have a number of other overlapping communities with the Maine Matching Grant. We think the relationship will be beneficial for both Agua Pura and the Mobil Clinics. First, installing filters in the communities where the Mobil Clinic work will improve the health of the community members, thus benefiting the Mobil Clinic team. Second, the Mobil Clinic staff can do informal supervision of the filters, encourage filter use and reinforce good hygiene and sanitation when they visit their communities with filters. Third, we can work together to hand out anti-parasite medication and may be able to share the cost of the drugs. We have scheduled to do deparasiting with them in Zorca, one of our Carroll Creek communities on February 14th.