When a Free Yearly Clinic Is Your Only Health Care - Remote Area Medical

Remote Area Medical is offering relief to many who cannot afford health care or insurance. Newsweek does a nice job with the coverage here and a few months ago I had a post with video showing how the daily set up goes. RAM was originally set up for interest outside the US, but of late, their efforts are used and needed here first. BD

Fowler has made the hour long journey from her home in Cleveland, Va., to the small town of Wise to take advantage of a huge annual medical and dental expedition set up by Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit organization that provides basic medical and dental care to people in the world's most inaccessible regions. This year, more than 1,800 volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses and assistants descended on the small town near the Kentucky border, setting up enormous field-hospital-style tents in which they saw roughly 2,500 patients over the course of two and a half days in late July. The Wise operation is coordinated locally by a team of nurses with the Health Wagon, a tiny health-care outreach program.

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