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Mission
The PAC- Antioquia is an Institución Prestadora de Servicios de la Salud (non profit Institution that provides health services), devoted to providing health services in all the Colombian territory, with emphasis on rural, poor, isolated and difficult to reach places.
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By the year 2010 the PAC- Antioquia should be the first institution to provide rural health services, by means of specialized medical programmes, health promotion and prevention.
It can count on a team, compromised of a highly qualified and human people that will provide greater coverage and recognition at the National and International level
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The PAC - Antioquia bases its work on its relationship with the communities it works with and on the following values:
Social Commitment
We are committed to our work and clearly understand its importance, especially where the underprivileged are concerned.
Professionalism
All the PAC - Antioquia´s personnel are highly trained in human and technical aspects and this enables them to provide a better service to all the
communities.
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How PAC- Antioquia functions?
In rural areas close on 15% of the patients who attend the hospitals cannot solve their health difficulties because they require specialist attention be it clinical or surgical.
Apart from which the greater majority do not have the financial means to travel to the larger cities, and the medical personnel cannot reach them due to travel restrictions or public order difficulties because of the armed conflict in the country.
Bearing this in mind, PAC - Antioquia responds by creating a mobile hospital, where medical personnel and pilots place their services and abilities in the most underprivileged areas.
To resolve part of these necessities PAC - Antioquia, in the last 10 years, has carried out more that 21 thousand surgical procedures, (including 1,200 cataracts) and more than 63 thousand specialized clinical consultancies in 198 rural hospitals in the Departments of Antioquia, Arauca, Bolivar, Caldas, Caquetá, Cauca, Chocó, Cordoba y Vichada, where the costs of the missions are taken on by the hospitals, PAC - Antioquia and a National and/or a National or International donor.
For 2005 PAC - Antioquia have planned 120 Specialized Medical missions with which they expect to benefit a total of 2,160 surgical patients and a further 6,000 clinical consultancies. At the momentwe are seeking funds to help with these missions.
Each mission is made up of 4 professionals and they attend to an average of 50 clinical patients and 18 surgical cases.
FINANCIAL SOURCES
The Pac - Antioquia receives funding from the under noted sources:
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Hospitals and municipalities :
constitute the financing of those patients that have access to social security.
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Private National Foundations such as Fundación Dividendo por Colombia, Fundación Exito, Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar and Fraternidad Medellín.
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International
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This source of financing has allowed PAC - Antioquia to count on various types of surgical equipment, such as: anaesthesia, ophthamlogical and Ecograph. Children of the Andes financed the cost of half an aircraft as well as 107 missions for children. It is important to note the cooperation of the Japanese, British and Dutch Embassies as well as the Fundación Mundo Unido, The Vatican City and the Fondo Caritativo de la Compañía de Jesus (FACSI). In addition, institutions such as Genesis Foundation and Children of the Andes (COTA) of London, England have provided important funding for our children's programmes.
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