Nearly three months after a glitzy “grand opening” event with the mother of Governor Aristotoles Sandoval in attendance as guest of honor, the dental clinic at Ajijic’s Centro de Salud is finally running on a regular schedule.
The installation of dentistry care module at the health care facility was completed last December with a state investment of 74,000 pesos for remodeling expenses and contributions of 64,500 pesos from the community to purchase furnishings and equipment. However, town administrator Hector España has spent the past several months battling bureaucratic red tape at the Jalisco Ministry of Health (SSJ) to get the clinic staffed and ready for day-to-day operations. He is still not fully satisfied that things are going as planned to implement a pilot project envisioned as a state model for full service public oral care centers. But, for the moment, he is content to have made it over the first big hurdles.
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