About the clinic…

The Medical Clinic is a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Ecuador, which sees it as an avenue to connect with and serve the local community. The current services of the Medical Clinic include family and general medicine, dentistry, pediatrics, gynecology, laboratory, orthopedics/traumatology, oral surgery, physical therapy, vascular surgery, clinical psychology, and a pharmacy. Our clinic team also works with the international volunteers and local churches in the surrounding area to provide medical care to more remote regions through medical caravans. Read more about our medical caravans and learn how you can get involved here. 

Since the Medical Clinic was founded in 2014, there has been a process of opening and developing the clinic to serve the medically underserved in the area and to grow in the scope of its ministry. Initially children were served through the local Compassion International Center, which is a ministry of the local church, Iglesia Emanuel.  In 2014, there were around 500 children to serve with both sick visits and regular checkups.  

The clinic was officially opened to the public in April of 2015 after serving for about a year with the children in the Compassion International Center.  When the clinic officially opened, it began serving the communities of Juan Montalvo and Cayambe.  Since its opening in 2016, the number of patients seen per year has tripled. We have now seen over 42,000 patients through the Medical Clinic and the Medical Caravans. 

Caring for the broader medically underserved community through medical caravans happened almost simultaneously with the opening of the clinic.  The goal at this point is to continue to develop educational programs for the surrounding communities and to provide quality healthcare to areas with minimal access.

Offering more robust specialty care through our specialists allow us to better serve the broader community.

Will you help support this important work? The 64 for Ecuador initiative is a group of individuals who have decided that they will not accept that many Ecuadorians go without proper healthcare.  When we have 64 people giving $64 per month, then our Medical Clinic in Cayambe is fully supported and can be sustained.