There was a disasterous fire in the silver mines and a number of persons were severly burned and they brought them there. Before, it was a small tourist hotel,

The Hospital is owned by the government but the administration has to fend for itself a lot. The equipment they have would be laughable if it weren’t pitiable.

The back-up operating table is fifty years old and they also use it to fold laundry on. The surgical lamp is held on by duct tape. The Xray machine can only barely do one lung at a time; it is a World War 2 model! They have a blood lab and an ancient centrifuge unit.

A lot of young women live away in the rural places and the families are extremely poor and dont know what services might be available to them.

The young boys are irresponsible, and the young girls dont know anything. The prenatal course the Hospital underwrites provides them with the best chance to have a healthy baby.

A lot of men are in the United States as wetback labor and their women are at home with the other children.

The Adolfo Prieto Hospital staff encourage the country midwife to accompany the birthing mother.

Their idea is to do everything possible to care for the lives of the child and the mother.