Centro Medico Humberto Parra is a community medical clinic located in the rain forest in eastern Bolivia, 72 miles outside of Santa Cruz, the largest city in the country.

Our goal is to improve the health and overall quality of life of the surrounding communities by providing first-rate medical care and other health services.  It is the only free medical clinic in the surrounding 40,000 person area.

The Daniels Hamant Foundation of River Forest, IL funds and helps manage Centro Medico.

Centro Medico Humberto Parra is the realization of the dream of Dr. Douglas Villarroel, a Bolivian endocrinologist, and Dr. Susan Hou, Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center.

Centro Medico opened in 2001.  Soon staff were seeing 100 patients a day and distributing free medicine to Bolivians in need.  The clinic expands every year and serves more than 3,000 patients a year.