[Noticias] 180 Boquete Ex-pats Respond

Dear Boquete Community,      

Thank you for your expedient, candid and insightful responses to the recent e-mail and questionnaire regarding the need for 24 hour medical emergency services in Boquete. Approximately 180 individuals responded to this request for information, most within 24 hours. 

 Your feedback unanimously revealed:

·        Boquete Ex-pats feel 24 hour emergency services are crucial.

·        Boquete Ex-pats are willing to consider an annual membership fee in order to 

       ensure that these vital services become a reality.

·        Boquete Ex-pats will make themselves available to support this endeavor

Dale Jackson is an Ex-pat who has enthusiastically stepped forward, offering her extensive entrepreneurial talent.  Together, with community expertise and support, we are organizing an effort intended to provide Boquete with 24 hour emergency medical services. We quickly discovered that others in the community have also been addressing this need and we recognize that it is the collective effort of the community that will serve to ensure quality medical emergency care to all who reside in Boquete.

Dale & I believe you will be excited about the possibilities.  At present, we have formulated three scenarios:

1.      Partnership with a 24 hour clinic, which is "investigating" the financial possibility of a start-up operation in Boquete.

2.      Pursuit of a Joint venture agreement with a participating hospital (Chiriqui or Mae Lewis.)  Contact has been initiated.

3.      Develop a 24-hour emergency service clinic in Boquete, operated under a local foundation yet to be established, funded by Boquete residents.

We are currently in need of volunteers who are willing to assist with the development of a detailed community questionnaire intended to provide community feedback for continued planning.   : (This questionnaire will be presented to the Ex-pat Community in English and to the Panamanian Community in Spanish.) . (jcacianti@gmail.com)

Other volunteers will be needed as we proceed.      I am building a list of "PROSPECT" volunteers who will be contacted as needs arise.   PLEASE  become a member of this "prospect" list.  (jcacianti@gmail.com

Boquete's Ex-pat Community =   Expertise, Talent, Energy, Resources. . . TOGETHER we can accomplish OUR mission!

Thank you.                             

Julie A. Cacianti