GUATEMALA

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Guatemala is a country with a long, tumultuous history of civil war and class violence. Since 1996 the government has been relatively stable, but the depressed economy and lack of well-implemented economic infrastructure has hampered the development of widely available high quality healthcare outside of the larger cities.  Jalpatagua is a town of 20,000 located in the southeastern region of the country. San Juan Bautista Hospital is a small 40 bed hospital