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Rotary Club of Duluth builds and then rebuilds a medical clinic in Las Palmeros, Department of Loreto , Peru In 1992, the Rotary Club of Duluth, the 25th club chartered by Rotary International, helped to construct a medical clinic at Las Palmeros, in the northern Department of Loreto, Peru. The needs of the people of the Amazon region were brought to the attention of the Club by Dr. Linnea Smith, a Wisconsin physician who had given up her practice in the US to help the people of the Amazon river. The original construction in the early ‘90’s, gave access to free medical care for thousands of people in the Amazon, and a clinic for Dr. Smith, nurses and Physicians assistants to work from. Dr. smith established a not for profit called the Amazon Medical Project to provide medicines, equipment, and medical personnel to La Clínica Yanamonos, which was at the time the only free medical facility in the Department. |
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