 Apoera is home to a Medische Zending healthcare centre.In the framework of the West-Suriname plan from 1976 to 1978 an 80 kilometer long railway was built from the south of Apoera to the Bakhuis mountain range, for bauxite mining.It was intended that Apoera would be developed into a port where bauxite ships could dock, but in the end the railroad was never used for this purpose.