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| HOSPITAL SAN CARLOS YEARLY REPORT Dear Fellow Missionaries: Each year the Daughters of Charity, who run Hospital San Carlos in Altamirano, Chiapas, Mexico, send a complete statistical report of their work to us. I like to summarize the report for you and put a bit of flesh and blood into the statistics. It gives you a sense of what the Sisters are facing and the tremendous impact for good accomplished there. Hospital San Carlos is old, falling apart, termite-infested, small (25 beds), and served 15,175 patients in the past year! This is an astonishing statistic in its own right. Add to the fact that Altamirano is in the middle of a low-intensity armed conflict – Mexican Army vs. Zapatistas vs. privately directed para-military squads. Many of the hospital patients travel great distances, sometimes literally carried by their family members. All patients are the poorest of the poor. The number 15,175 is almost a miraculous number of people served. We must keep all of this is mind as we look at the other statistics. |
Of these many patients, 40% were females and 60% were males. They were distributed through the age range as follows:
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