New Health Clinic Opens in Mejicanos, financed by USAID
June 18, 2004

Mark Silverman, Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in El Salvador, joined President Tony Saca in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the formal opening of the Dr. Hugo Morán Quijada Health Clinic in Mejicanos, a northern suburb of San Salvador.

The old health clinic in Mejicanos was destroyed in the 2001 earthquakes. The new clinic will offer comprehensive health-care services to thousands of residents in eight municipalities in the Mejicanos area. Construction of the clinic was financed by USAID at a cost of $650,000. Other institutions whose contributions made possible the construction of the clinic are the Ministry of Public Health, the Social Investment and Local Development Fund (FISDL), and the Mejicanos Mayor’s office.

USAID has financed construction of five health clinics through FISDL, in the towns of Jayaque, Nuevo Cuscatlán, Santa Tecla, and Santa Catarina Masahuat in Sonsonate Department, and Mejicanos. Total USAID funding for these clinics comes to $2.7 million.