Medical

Hospital Centro Socorro De Lo Alto is a small health care facility located in a village of about 3,000 people in western Honduras. The hospital is named for a missionary who came to the area in the mid-seventies and who envisioned the establishment of a hospital that would provide medical care to the economically depressed people of the western sector of Honduras.

http://www.sulahospital.com/images/groundscaretaker.gifHospital Centro Socorro De Lo Alto was founded in June 2003 through the efforts of many caring people. The clinic replaced a facility that was founded by missionary Bobby Bowman in 1986 which was closed by the mission under which Bowman served upon his retirement from missionary service in early 2002.

The hospital sits in a small community called Sula, in the municipality of Macuelizo, Department of Santa Barbara, in an area commonly called the Valleys of Quimistan. People come from all over the region, including the second largest city, San Pedro Sula to receive care at Hospital Centro Socorro De Lo Alto.

The hospital provides 24-hour care, seven days a week with one house doctor and a small team of nurses. They treat emergencies, deliver babies and other conditions. Jorge Inestroza, MD, an OB-GYN specialist, is director of the hospital. He is an excellent physician who also serves a large government hospital in San Pedro Sula, as a part-time attending gynecologist. He has a heavy patient load of women with reproductive issues. Other Honduras physicians who serve through the hospital on an as-needed basis are a surgeon, orthopedist, urologist and a neurosurgeon.

The hospital has about 26 inpatient beds, with an arrangement of wards, private and semi-private rooms. There is a clinical laboratory, X-Ray, pharmacy, emergency room, three well outfitted major operating rooms and a central supply/sterile supply facility, as well as an outpatient clinic building. The space is well suited to provide daily care as well as surgical attention by visiting volunteer surgeons and their teams. The support staff are instrumental in providing dietary, laundry, maintenance, grounds keeping and just about everything else that needs to be done.

The hospital is part of the ministry of Evangelistic International Ministries and has a strong evangelism and spiritual counseling program, directed by a full-time chaplain. Thousands receive attention from the chaplain each year. The clinic is owned and operated by Evangelistic International Ministries, Magnolia, Arkansas, an organization recognized by and authorized to function within the country of Honduras. The hospital functions within the parameters of a multi-service medical clinic (polyclinic) and is under the overall licensure and supervision of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

Future plans are to expand the emergency complex to make it more of a trauma center.  Construction nears completion on a house for visiting volunteer teams that will comfortably house up to 30 people.

 

Supplies Needed

        Tape/band-aids/tongue blades/applicators/gelpi retractors/elastic bandages/ 2 x 2 sponges/dressing sponges

If you would like to donate supplies, please contact Bert Kinsey or Mary Kinsey at 251.937.1755 by e-mail at bertmary@bellsouth.net. 

Cash Donations

Cash donations (checks) should be made out to EIM and sent to:

Evangelistic International Ministries
PO Box 297
Magnolia, Arkansas 71754

Please note on the check what area of the program the donation is to support such as medical, nutrition, general fund, bibles/shepherd bag ministry, etc. Evangelistic International Ministries is 501(c)3 tax deductible organization. Donations of equipment and supplies as well as cash contributions are tax-deductible.

Volunteers

We need volunteers to join each mission. It is helpful if you speak Spanish but it is not necessary. We're looking for the following people: