CHSC has partnered together with a team of skilled medical professionals to build Hospital Yojoa. Our aim is to build a 140-bed full-service Christian mission teaching hospital in Central Honduras. Hospital Yojoa will be located near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, the municipal seat of the region, to allow for easy access by patients from the numerous impoverished mountain villages surrounding the area. Encircled by the mountains of central Honduras, Lago de Yojoa, the nation’s largest freshwater lake, is a popular tourism hub. Despite this, the region boasts some of the highest poverty rates of Central America. The mountains of Yojoa are scattered with tiny villages full of people with little access to affordable medical care.
The healthcare system in Honduras is overwhelmed. In the US, there is one hospital for every 40,000 people. In Honduras, that number is 340,000 people per hospital. Because the private system is out of reach financially for most Hondurans, the public hospital system is vastly overcrowded. Due to the high ratio of patients to medical providers, wait times are long and health outcomes suffer. Additionally, public hospitals frequently lack necessary supplies to manage the large number of patients they encounter. Instead, patients are responsible for purchasing the often expensive supplies needed for their care in private pharmacies and then bring them to the hospital. If a patient shows up for a scheduled surgery without the necessary medical supplies, their surgery will be rescheduled. Because many of the poorest patients cannot afford to buy supplies they are essentially left without healthcare.
We want to change that.
If you would like to join us in being the change for the people of Central Honduras, visit Hospital Yojoa online to see how you can contribute!