This is my field; I worked for many years for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO).

Paraguay has HEALTH POSTS, which are staffed by primary health care workers, including volunteers, supervised by a physician who checks in periodically. The community pharmacies or dispensaries distribute or sell drugs prescribed by the health posts or other physicians or OTC drugs. If not attached to a health post, personnel in the community pharmacy sometimes give immunizations and help with simple treatments, such as bee stings,common URIs, etc.

Examples:

You can find a number of nursing jobs in the hospitals, clinics, **health posts** in Paraguay, besides you can also work as a health staff in universities, ...
www.jobzing.com/paraguay/nursing-jobs/

Regional Core Health Data System - Country Profile: PARAGUAY
An important factor in Paraguay’s social organization is language. ...... It consists mainly of **health posts staffed by health volunteers, ...**
www.paho.org/english/sha/prflpar.htm

In its 15 years of democratic life, Paraguay has had to solve the system’s .....** health centers and health posts,** and health financing through internal and ...
www.paho.org/english/DD/AIS/cp_600.htm

Paraguay Hospitals
Paraguay Hospitals are mainly located in the city of Asuncion. ... 197 health centers; 657 health posts or infirmaries; 214 clinics and sanatoriums ...
www.mapsofworld.com/paraguay/health/hospitals.html

the rural areas in eastern Paraguay (Neembucu, Misiones, Itapúa). ... health posts are visited by fewer than 3 patients each day on average. ...
www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/EN_Home/Ex-post_Evaluation_at_K...

USAID Health: Health Systems, News/Info, Conferences, Speeches ...
Jun 20, 2005 ... Paraguay Community Pharmacies Provide Low-Cost Medicine ... The pharmacies are **typically housed within health posts or clinics** run by the ...
www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/hs/news/pharmacies.htm

An important factor in Paraguay’s social organization is language. ...... **Community pharmacies** have been established in the country with initial funding ...
www.paho.org/english/sha/prflpar.htm

Feb 1, 2009 ... Specialty, or niche **community pharmacies**, though still few in number, .... PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, PHOENIX ISLAND ...
www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern Medicine Now/N...


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Note added at 8 hrs (2009-04-14 22:19:18 GMT)
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"Dispensary" is still used, but "community pharmacy" is the more current term. "Dispensary" is used for specific drugs - for example, for malaria or TB. 1,200 references for [Paraguay+"community pharmacy'}; many more for [Paraguay+dispensary]. More examples of both:

Sep 22, 2008 ... Many of the poor in Paraguay have almost no access to medicines and medical supplies. USAID started a pilot community pharmacy program ...
www.usaid.gov/cgi-bin/keyword.cgi?keyword=paraguay

the National Group on Health Accounts in Paraguay / PAHO/WHO. ..... care regimens, and procedures for every kind of facility (dispensaries, health posts and ...
www.lachealthsys.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc

Mar 1, 2008 ... Intervention: In 1985, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched a program to extend ... Chile, and parts of Brazil and Paraguay by 2001. ... TB dispensaries and regularly reported to county dispensaries. ...
www.the-scientist.com/article/display/54399/

Apr 2, 2009 ... Asuncion, Paraguay. In July. 1941, we started out in the organization of the Prophy- laxis Section of our Tuberculosis Dispensary. ...
www.chestjournal.org/content/13/1/20.full.pdf

News from Chris & Alison Hawksbee in Paraguay ... They hope to buy medicines for their dispensary from some of the income from the sale of sesame. ...
www.samsireland.com/resources/Hawksbee.doc

... Panama Balboa (PAB), Papua New Guinea Kina (PGK), Paraguayan Guarani (PYG) ..... any expired medicines in their possession to any pharmacy, dispensary, ...
www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/page/2/

PAHO Consultant, Asuncion. Paraguay. Mail address: .... Dispensary. S. S. All medicines worldwide. Registered medicines. National list of ...
pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACI323.pdf