The organization is one of the most important tools we have to exercise our civic participation. The effort to organize groups of community leaders to support the work of the health services through the surveillance and require solutions to identified problems, emerged 15 years ago.
Currently the CDIR-HEALTH is comprised of a community of leaders aware of the need to act to enforce the Right to Health. The members of the REDCSALUD know the gaps that exist as well as the problems faced by the public health services. Within them, discrimination and abuse towards the users themselves listed as violations of the Right to Health.
During the fifteen years of its existence, the REDCSALUD has grown and changed. Originally named as the Citizens Advice in Health, but with time and growth, and changes the name to Network Defenders and Community Right-to-Health -REDCSALUD-
The CDIR-Health was present at the recent visit of the vice minister of Primary Health Care of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS), José Camey, to Huehuetenango. During the tour, the official acknowledged the importance of the unification of efforts to provide a...
At the opening ceremony of the Pact for Health conducted in the department of Sololá had the presence of the Defenders and the CDIR-Health, Indigenous Authorities, Grandmothers, Midwives, Civil Society organizations, and the lord President of the Republic, Bernard...
Representatives of the 31 municipalities of the 5 departments of Guatemala where the CDIR-Health has a presence, and some guests shared their experiences during the National Assembly of the Network of Advocates and Community Defenders for the Right to Health (CDIR (Health) carried out in Coban...
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