It was the middle of the night in the remote community of La Danta, in the RACCS region, and María began to bleed very badly. María was a new mother. She didn’t know it then, but she was having a postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding after delivery of a baby), and her life was at risk. Five weeks…
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Aura Estela Toruño was diagnosed with diabetes 12 years ago. Nowadays, she also suffers hypertension. For many years, she had been coming to the Samaritan Clinic to get her check-ups and tests. One day, she came for an appointment and “the doctor invited me to join a group for patients suffering illnesses like mine. I came…
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Serving the Most Vulnerable According to the World Health Organization, “complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for 15 to 19 year-old girls globally.” AMOS’ commitment to the most vulnerable means that if a teen pregnancy does occur in one of the communities we serve, the health promoters we train and…
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Thank you for helping AMOS to celebrate 10 years as an organization, and 50 years since the beginnings of the ministry on which we were founded! The AMOS Health & Hope staff in 2017 – we have grown so much in ten years! At the end of November and beginning of December, AMOS Health &…
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