CDIR-Health in Sololá
The CDIR-Health in the department of Sololá has a presence in 5 municipalities, which are: Santa Cruz La Laguna, San Marcos La Laguna, San Pablo La Laguna, Conception and Nahualá, to the CDIR-HEALTH is comprised of 28 defenders. This CDIR–HEALTH is shaped by midwives, COCODEs, Auxiliary Mayors, committees and users of the services of health, community leaders and indigenous authorities. These are people who work on a voluntary basis and are part of the community, are the main actors of the process of citizen oversight of the health services.
The role of the community leader or community advocate
These are people who work on a voluntary basis and are part of the community, are the main actors of the process of citizen oversight of the health services.
Axes of work the CDIR-Health Sololá
Accompaniments
The accompanying process in conjunction with the REDCSALUD and CEGSS we provide advice and guidance
users who report cases that require follow-up and solutions.
Participation in departmental
In the department of Sololá through the SESAN and the Address Area of Health develop meetings with state institutions and non-state with the participation of civil society for the boarding and search of solutions to problems and needs related to health, water and sanitation, nutrition, among others.
Incidence
According to the results of watches that are developed are established dialogues
with the authorities of the Ministry of Health at the different levels for the presentation of the results, proposals and search solution to the findings.
Information tables
Within all of the actions that the REDCSALUD is developing is the training and information to the population, in this specific case it is carried out the promotion of human rights, to health, legal framework, among other topics through tables of information that consists in carrying out in crowded places for the population as the markets and in the parks of the municipalities to provide information in Spanish and the mayan language of the place so that people know their rights and be able to do valerlos. These actions have been developed in the following municipalities:
Coordination with organizations
With in Incap worked on “Community-based Strategies with Hypertensive Patients in the Municipalities of San Pablo, San Marcos, and Santa Cruz La Laguna”.
Surveillance
During the surveillance seeks to generate evidence on the situation of the political and public health services, which allow us to
and were negotiating with the authorities to find solutions to problems presented.
Training
In coordination with INCAP, CDIR-Health and District 7 of the MSPAS it worked the
community strategy focused on the hypertensive patient, with the aim of working together for the creation of self-help groups with hypertensive individuals to receive proper treatment and comprehensive in the municipalities of San Pablo, San Marcos, and Santa Cruz La Laguna. Sololá.
Exchange of experience
We carried out an exchange of experience with medical students in the final year of the Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala city, Guatemala, to share the experience of the work of the REDCSALUD on the topic of surveillance, incidence and follow-up of patients who require medical attention.
Alliances
For the actions monitoring, advocacy, accompaniment and formation are set
various strategic alliances with community authorities, health institutions working on human rights with the aim of coordinating actions in the search for solutions to the problems identified in the health services and support to users.
Achievements
Of the various processes that the CDIR-HEALTH has had on the department of
Sololá, we have had some achievement within which is: the management of an ambulance for the Post of Village Health Patzutzún a need reflected by the communities in the rural area of the municipality, resulting in a unified way between the authorities and civil society that the ambulance has been moved into the community to benefit several surrounding communities.
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