Word: infantile
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Mexico's child-mortality rate would be even worse if it were not for gentle-voiced Dr. Federico Gómez, 52, who spent ten years cajoling the government into building (and subsidizing) Mexico City's Hospital Infantil, the country's first child hospital. Director since its completion in 1943, Dr. Gómez treated rich & poor alike, told wealthy parents: "You will leave your pride, your money, and your social position outside, and bring only your sick child. He is our treasure...
Because of the Infantil's success, the government has built three other child hospitals, has two more abuilding, more planned. And to spread medical care, the Infantil requires its graduate students to serve at least two years in Mexico's hungry small towns and farm villages...
...freight overflows the docks, the warehouses, runs out into the streets and public parks. Alongside the Pargue Infantil are stacked weather-beaten wood cases containing tractors, electrical transformers, construction steel, concrete mixers. Up past the cathedral on the road to Cali stands a broken-down road grader, tires deflated, blue-flowered vines curling around its steering wheel...
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