The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Ministry of Health (Minsa), will inaugurate on March 8 a women’s care center in the facilities of the Humboldt Center, an environmental organization that was outlawed by the ruling party in March 2022 and confiscated its offices in July of the same year.
The vice president and government spokesperson, Rosario Murillo, said in her usual midday communication this Wednesday that the care center will be named after Dr. Ligia Altamirano, and will be inaugurated on the date that International Women’s Day is celebrated.
“This is here in District I of Managua, by the José Martí Statue, and it will be delivered, as we said, on March 8, to attend to the health of the women of Managua,” Murillo said in the official media, without mentioning that the address where the center will work is the same one where the environmental agency used to work.
As detailed by the first lady, more than 600,000 women from the capital will be cared for in this center, who will receive gynecological care, pregnancy care, nutritional and psychological care. “There will be equipment for Mammography, Colposcopy, Cryotherapy, Bone Densitometry, ultrasound, Pap smears and all kinds of laboratory tests, among other services,” said Murillo.
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“There are 40 health workers who will be taking turns caring for the sisters, the women who are always looking for ways to promote and protect their own health and that of our families,” added the government spokesperson.
the confiscation
The confiscation of the environmental organization occurred on July 8, 2022, four months after the National Assembly, controlled by the ruling party, decided to cancel its legal status, arguing that said organization had not reported its board of directors and financial reports in accordance with the periods tax and detailed breakdowns as required by law.
Sources close to the Humboldt Center revealed in months prior to Article 66 that the building It was valued at $450,000.
The environmental agency focused on promoting territorial development through sustainable management of the environment and natural resources. The institutional work was organized based on a policy of alliances with organizations of civil society and the organized instances that constitute their counterparts. In addition, they developed strategies to solve environmental and local problems in favor of sustainable development.
In the independent media they were a source of consultation on the issue of climate, climate change, mining, among others, as an option in the face of the secrecy of the regime with State institutions such as the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter) and its wrong weather forecasts.
