PEDIATRIC CENTER FOR 15,600 CHILDREN IN NEED

Dear donor, please receive a warm greeting. We at the Grupo Puntacana Foundation truly appreciate your contribution. We are able to serve quality health care services to thousands of children living in the underserved communities of the Punta Cana region because of supporters like you. We are grateful that so many generous souls are supporting our cause. Thank you for helping us save precious lives.

Located in the community of Verón and accessible to all vulnerable communities of the Punta Can region. This health center, inaugurated in 2017, provides quality primary care to more than 15,000 children (0-15 years old) belonging to low income families .

This and all the reports to follow will update you on our progress and how your donation is been invested in this social initiative.

Currently 100% of the medical services are available and they are being demanded by the population. The patient service hours are from 8:00am to 4:00 pm, from Monday to Friday, except the 24-hour emergency service (every day, including weekends and holidays).

Nowadays the clinic continues offering health prevention programs, outpatient consultations, dental care, vaccination, x ray services, emergency, laboratory, nutrition program (together with UNICEF and “Sanar una Nación”), pharmacy services, staff training program.

In the last 3 months the center served 6,336 patients

The areas with the highest flow of patients are emergency, pediatric consultations, laboratory and vaccination. The most common medical cases in the last months: Respiratory infections , febrile syndrome, skin infections, injuries from external causes and gastrointestinal disorders.

The center has been focused in the following activities and programs:

• Promotion of the Children's Reading Program thanks to the collaboration of Akron Children’s Hospital. The books that patients receive stimulate the imagination, creativity and fun.

• Vaccination program: Aiming to increase the percentage of children immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases.

• Dental days: Promotion of dental health and the prevention of cavities through talks and consultations

• Collaboration with the government entity CONANI (National Council for Children) by working closely for the well-being of children and adolescents recruited by the institution, specially those affected by poverty and violence. They are benefited from medical care, preventive health and nutrition programs

• Nutrition Program, with the support of UNICEF, it seeks to identify children who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in order to closely monitor them and provide them nutritional supplements.

• Restart of inter-institutional collaboration programs together with Akron Children’s Hospital and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) that promotes staff training, dissemination of good medical practices, research, and constant improvement of patient service through telemedicine, internships and rotation students

There are still goals to achieve in this stage of the project:

• Purchase the needed medical equipment and furniture: Additional desktop computers, printer CR-X30, additional telephones, new dental chair, sterilizer, vacuum cleaner for the emergency area, new seating sets for the waiting area.

• Purchase and implement a software to improve the administrative efficiency

• Increase the staff training programs

• Increase the supply of medical materials and medications.

Looking forward you continue to partner with us !

In the upcoming months we will keep you updated on the progress of our project.

If you have any comment, advice or question, please let us know and we will respond as best we can.

Thank you very much again for your support !

Best wishes !