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Free Healthcare Expo in Orange County
An estimated 1,000 people lined up on May 8 for Orange County’s first health expo to get free medical care as part of an event to help the uninsured and underinsured. The event offered free exams, including dental and vision, as well assistance to help residents learn their options for public health care.
Giving Children Hope’s mobile medical clinic was present to help facilitate basic care to those in attendance.
Free Health Care Event Serves Over 6,000
Giving Children Hope was a part of the second Los Angeles free health care clinic, its mobile medical clinic serving as pediatric center in the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Here is the most recent statistics from Remote Area Medical/Los Angeles (RAM/LA:
“Remote Area Medical/Los Angeles (RAM/LA) finished its second Los Angeles free clinic after seven days at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Supported by the Los Angeles medical, dental, and vision professional community, the free clinic provided services to approximately 6,556 patients total as of 2 p.m. Monday, May 3rd, with four hours left to go. Patients received free dental exams, dental cleanings, tooth extractions and root canals; vision exams and prescription glasses; mammograms, Pap smears, podiatry consultations, and more. RAM/LA’s first Los Angeles-based clinic, last year at the Forum in Inglewood, lasted eight days and provided approximately 14,500 services to 6,344 patients. This year, the RAM/LA clinic has provided approximately 16,120 services as of 2 p.m. on Monday, May 3rd over a seven-day clinic. An additional 1,620 services over last year have been provided, with a daily average of 2,300 services this year versus 1,820 last year. “This year’s event is about Los Angeles coming together, as a community, to help our own during this economic downturn,” said Don Manelli, RAM/LA event producer. “Over 60 organizations and community groups, large and small, have contributed all of the medical resources and volunteers to help make this clinic a tremendous success.”
