Treatments shall be provided, insofar as possible, at the public health centers closest to the
victims’ places of residence. Once the necessary requirements have been identified and
budgeted, the Secretariat of Health shall incorporate them into its Annual Operating Plans
(POA), in order to recruit the necessary personnel and provide the required medical
equipment and supplies to the hospitals closest to the victims’ homes, after identifying the
centers described in conjunction with the Miskito organizations that sign this [Agreement].
In the event that the State is unable to provide the required medical treatment through its
public institutions in the Mosquitia region, it shall ensure that these are provided in other
public medical centers of the country.
The State shall provide the means to facilitate support to the divers to cover the costs of
transportation, food and, when appropriate, lodging, incurred by the victims in order to
attend their medical appointments.
In addition, the State shall ensure that the treatment provided is culturally relevant,
understanding this to mean the adaptation of criteria and information to the particularities
of the customs, traditions, way of life and linguistic identity of the Miskito people and
integrating traditional practices of Miskito medicine.
A.2. Educational scholarships for the victims, their children and/or their
grandchildren
117.
In the friendly settlement agreement, the State agreed to the following:
The State shall award specific and differentiated educational scholarships for the children
and/or grandchildren of the disabled or deceased divers who have been recognized as
victims in the instant case. These scholarships, which shall cover all expenses derived from
the studies, shall be granted for the duration of the study period until its completion, or
until the beneficiaries are satisfied. As for the academic performance of the beneficiaries,
follow-up actions will be carried out in order to take joint decisions regarding their
continuity. In the event that the parties do not reach a consensus on the continuity of the
scholarships, the Court will be asked to express an opinion on the matter.
The scholarships shall be awarded and administered through mechanisms that contemplate
the genuine participation of the beneficiaries and their representatives, and facilitate
agreements with the relevant public education institutions. The mechanism to be created
to implement this measure shall be agreed with the representative organizations and shall
be in operation one year after the signing of this agreement, so that the State may
coordinate and provide for the scholarships in the respective AOPs and be able to effectively
execute them, including the corresponding disbursement of the resources assigned for such
purpose.
The State of Honduras also undertakes to continue with the educational scholarship
programs in the area; the mechanism for their execution and disbursement would be the
same as that agreed upon in this section.
A.3. Program of productive projects
118.
In the friendly settlement agreement, the State agreed to the following:
The State, through the competent institutions in coordination with the Alliance for the
Development of the Honduran Mosquitia (ADMH), will establish a program of specific
production projects so that the victims and their families can develop productive activities
to enable them to subsist with in a dignified manner. In all phases of the design and
implementation of the programs, the victims shall be consulted and included through their
representative organizations, so that they may decide on the projects they want and be
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