New clinic for the people of Santa Tecla
September 10, 2004

US Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay and Salvadoran president Elías Antonio Saca participated in a ceremony to inaugurate the newly reconstructed health clinic Dr. Carlos Díaz del Pinal in Santa Tecla, which was destroyed by 2001 earthquakes.

The US Government through USAID provided $731,622 for the rebuilding of this clinic which will benefit some 200,000 residents of Santa Tecla and other towns nearby. An estimated 500 to 600 patients will receive modern health care daily in the new facilities.

This clinic is part of a USAID project to rebuild five clinics in different parts of El Salvador. The other facilities are in Jayaque, Mejicanos, Santa Catarina Masahuat and Nuevo Cuscatlán. For this purpose the US Government has provided more than $2.9 million.