ECUADOR
Taking
Health to the High Sierra
One of the
great challenges for sustainable human development in the
new century is the provision of good quality reproductive
health services to people living in poor urban settlements
and remote rural areas. One successful model is the Jambi
Huasi -or Health House- which is flourishing among the
Quechua-speaking people of the Ecuadorean Andes.
Blanca Cusin
Camreudo is a 23-year-old mother of two small children,
from one of the small communities who live around the
mountain town of Otavalo. She has been .coming to the
Jambi Huasi clinic for two years. She is now anxious to
space any future children and has asked for contraception
in order to better plan her family.
"I like
the services here," she explains in accented Spanish.
"1 get good advice from the doctors, the medicines
are inexpensive and I can get all the services I need from
under one roof."
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