More than a year after President Santiago Peña and Minister María Teresa Barán promised a comprehensive overhaul of the Caacupé Regional Hospital, the facility remains in a state of abandonment, with deteriorated infrastructure, lack of essential medicines, and insufficient resources.
Hospital Regional de Caacupé
Centro asistencial público en Caacupé, Paraguay, en estado de abandono y deterioro.
Patients report that for over a month, the Regional Hospital of Caacupé and health units in the Cabañas and Daniel Escurra districts have been without amlodipine and enalapril, essential medications for controlling high blood pressure. The shortage exposes weaknesses in the public health system in Cordillera.