Let’s Build a Clinic for Yanhuitlán !
“I want you to know that this is my GOLDEN DREAM.
What I most want is to return to my home town of Yanhuitlán. There I want to establish a homeopathic clinic for A PROMISE OF HEALTH.
It would be a small clinic that WILL REMAIN THERE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME FOR THOSE MOST IN NEED. This is what I want more than anything."
Dr. Soledad Ramirez Medina
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For 11 years Dr. Soledad has worked tirelessly treating patients at APOH’s rural health clinic in the town of Ayoquezco, Zimitlan in the Zapotec region of Oaxaca .
In Ayoquezco, she has lived with her family of 3 children crowded into an old government health building constructed more than 60 years ago. Abandoned for many years, it was dusted off and refurbished in 2010 when A Promise of Health started its program. The municipal government owns the building, providing it to APOH in exchange for medical service for the community. Sadly, all of the clinic's repair work was never completed. Today, now, after several nearby earthquakes, tropical storms and the wear and tear of time, the clinic has cracks in the walls, some windows are broken and the roof leaks. |
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Despite all of this, Dr. Soledad has faithfully cared for the community's sick that she has attended. During those 11 years, each week she has seen patients, prescribed and given the highest quality homeopathic medicine available. Most importantly, she has made sick people well.
A Promise of Health is very proud of Dra. Soledad’s achievements. From April 2010 until now, she has had 39,358 patient visits! This is an incredible body of work and great achievement for our doctor!
A Promise of Health is very proud of Dra. Soledad’s achievements. From April 2010 until now, she has had 39,358 patient visits! This is an incredible body of work and great achievement for our doctor!
Doctor Soledad's family today
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All these years, it has always been Dr. Soledad's goal to someday return home to help her people.
Her hometown, Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca, is smaller than Ayoquezco. It only has a population of about 2,000. Surrounding it are many more small villages and ranch communities bringing the population in the region to 6,000. The history of the Yanhuitlán region is rich. Once it was an ancient Mixtec capital rivaling the Aztecs. During the Spanish Conquest it became the site of a major Franciscan monastery which can be visited today. This is the heart of Mixtec Alta, where the majority of its population comprises these indigenous people. But for all of this, Yanhuitlán does not have its own doctor and has not had one for a long time! There is no doctor anywhere close-by and one is sorely needed. Now it’s time. Dr. Soledad has said it is time to return home. |
To make her point, she has purchased some land in the center of town. In the months to come she wants to build the clinic of her dreams. In Dr. Soledad's words, "It will be my “Golden Dream. It will be a small clinic that will remain there for generations to come for those most in need.”
LET'S HELP DR. SOLEDAD BUILD IT !!!