Friday, January 25, 2013

A new hospital for Easter Island

After years of relying on fairly rudimentary medical facilities, the Chilean Government fulfilled one of their long-running commitments to the island, and built a state of the art hospital for the residents and visitors of Rapa Nui.  President Sebastian Pinera visited the island for the first time since taking office, and officially opened the new hospital at the end of last year.


While very specialist treatments will still require travel to Santiago, the idea is that many more people can now be treated locally, as well as including a small Local Medicine department, focusing on traditional Rapanui alternative medicine.

The new hospital remains on the same site as the old one, on Simon Paoa street, but now covers an area about 4x as large, and also includes housing for medical staff. 



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