Entrants's Name: Manuel Salgado Martínez

Country: Mexico

Field: Health

Innovation - idea: Lilia Cisneros founded Instituto para la atencion Integral del Nino Quemado more than 30 years ago. At that time burned kids were ignored and nobody took care of them.

Innovation - why it is pioneering: Nobody in Mexico considered burned kids as a health problem before IAINQ existed. Nowadays, there are new initiatives in the same field thanks to the path opened by IAINQ.

Strategy - how it achieves impact: We partner with hospitals devoted to the issue. Our experience through the years has improved our (treatment) model.

Strategy - growth plans: Now we are focused more on prevention and education.

Impact to date: Nowadays, there are other organizations that work with what we designed.

Future impact: We demonstrated that is possible to lower the treatment costs and create volunteer networks.

Sustainability - resource base: May be this is our main weakness. The health sector has been focused in repeated “fashion waves”. AIDS, cancer, respiratory illnesses have been more attractive.

Major challenge for the field: We want to consolidate our teaching operation to get Latin American countries to give scholarships to medical students to be trained in IAINQ.

Contact Information:

Name: Lic. Manuel Salgado Martínez - Director of the Queretaro hospital
Mailing address: Julio María Cervantes 105, Colinas del Cimatario, Querétaro Querétaro
Country: Mexico
Email: direccion@iainq.org.mx
Tel: 01 44 2 22357 07
Fax: 01 44 2 2235708
Website: www.iainq.org.mx