Health Services in Panama

With the help of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the Government of Panama is expanding rural health services throughout the country, training professional and auxiliary workers in public health and sanitation. Under a programme initiated some four years ago, a central public health laboratory has been organized in Panama City to serve as a training centre for laboratory technicians in the health units, to supervise the health unit laboratories and complement their work.
A technician at work in a Section of the central laboratory where chemical analyses are carried out on milk and other dairy products, as well as on water from artesian walls, aqueducts, etc.