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Free Health Camp Will Cater To Thousands in Kansas

by Gopalan on November 29, 2009 at 2:35 PM General Health News

Free health camps are attracting large number of people in the economically hit US these days. More than 600 from the area’s hospitals and safety-net clinics have volunteered for the Kansas City clinic, slated for Dec. 9 and 10. Organizers are hoping to recruit at least twice that number.

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“It truly has been life-changing for many volunteers to see the overwhelming need of so many people,” said Sheri Wood, executive director of the Kansas City Free Health Clinic.

Before the economy nose-dived, the nation’s 1,200 free clinics were seeing about 4 million patients a year. This year, it’s doubled, said Tom Susman, a consultant to the National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC).

The NAFC is a national non-profit association of free clinics in the United States, which are themselves community-based, non-profit, volunteer-supported Free Clinics serving the people without or with little health insurance.

The national organization performs public policy advocacy and acts as a conduit for donations to free clinics.

The Kansas City Free Health Clinic saw an 18 percent increase in patients last year. It has to turn away about 200 people each week.

“People are losing their insurance, their jobs,” Susman said. “They put things off until they end up in the emergency room.”

Statistics from the New Orleans clinic event tell the story:

Fifty-seven percent of the patients were diagnosed with high blood pressure; 71 percent had heart disease.

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