dialysis center

Fundraiser Ball for Dialysis Center March 11

The civil association behind efforts to finally open Puerto Peñasco’s first Dialysis Center will be holding a fundraising concert/ball on March 11th, 9 pm – 2 am at the Quinta Ventura event hall, with entertainment by Grupo Proyección of Caborca, Sonora.  Tickets are 200 pesos and can be purchased from Chayo Eufracio 638 105 3473, […]

Walk planned for World Kidney Day – March 9th

The board supporting efforts to open the first Dialysis Clinic in Puerto Peñasco (Proyecto de Asistencia Comunitaria Integral, A.C.) is organizing a walk on March 9th to commemorate World Kidney Day. The march will begin at 5 p.m. from Plaza la Madre (next to the baseball stadium) and make its way to the facilities of […]

Goal to open dialysis center before end of year

Rafaela Félix de Figueroa, President of the Comprehensive Community Assistance Project A.C. representing the dialysis center project in Puerto Peñasco, recently reported on the clinic’s progress in fulfilling requirements established by COFEPRIS (Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks). Plans are still set at seeing the clinic finally begin operating by the end of […]

Service above Self on the Sea of Cortez

By Azucena Mazón & Shandra Keesecker-Rivero Thanks to the just over 55 projects of Rotary International Utah District 5420 carried out in Puerto Peñasco last week, sectors from education to health and housing received enormous benefits during the District’s 2014-15 Conference. In a truly monumental step for the area, Puerto Peñasco hosted Utah 5420’s District […]

Local Rotary Club donates ambulance to Dialysis Center

The Puerto Peñasco Mar de Cortés Rotary Club has once again donated an equipped ambulance to the community, this time to the Dialysis Clinic. The ambulance unit, presented on Friday, April 17th, was acquired thanks to Rotary District 5420 in Utah, and made possible through collaborative efforts among the various Rotary clubs. Puerto Peñasco Mar […]

70% progress on equipping of Dialysis Center

Samuel Ortega Castro, Director of the local Office on Integral Family Development (DIF) assures they will soon be receiving the first of five dialysis machines for the city’s highly anticipated Dialysis Center. He added that clinical testing on water to be used for the dialysis machines, which comes from the clinic’s own treatment equipment, has […]