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Why CORAL?
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While the public health system in Mexico is supposed to be universal, reality tells a different story. A significant percentage of the total population—most being from poor, rural areas—is unable to access even the most basic health services such as immunizations, pre- and postnatal care and routine check-ups.
Those living in or near major urban centers receive health care from state-run hospitals or through private clinics. State-run hospitals provide a range of services but are severely limited in their capacity to provide thorough health care due to cumbersome bureaucracy and a chronic lack of finances, resources and trained personnel. Private clinics offer a better quality of health care, but are often far too expensive for the average working-class Mexican.
For disabled individuals in Mexico, adequate and affordable rehabilitation equipment and programs are extremely difficult to find outside of the large cities. Customarily, the duty of taking care of a disabled person falls exclusively upon the family. Thus, those families with proper resources can pay for the needed services and those with limited funds use what services they can find and/or afford. Disabled people from backgrounds of extreme poverty often face a hard life of seeking charity or begging in the streets to support themselves.
In Oaxaca, hundreds of thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are in need of low-cost rehabilitative services. Pre-screening and diagnostic services to identify and determine the level of hearing loss are non-existent outside the capital city. Hearing tests, hearing aids, and related services are available within private clinics in Oaxaca City but are extremely costly...
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