ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Assists with the South ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Farmworker Health Project
June 22, 2011
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ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Assists with the South ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Farmworker Health Project
VALDOSTA -- Valdosta State University’s Council on Staff Affairs
and faculty members from different departments have teamed up with
the Emory School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Division for the
South ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Farmworker Health Project.
An annual event, the farmworker health project is held every June
to provide free health care for South ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ farmworkers and their
families. The seven-day event began Friday, June 17, and ends
Thursday, June 23.
Emory students, ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ staff and faculty members and other volunteers
have set up several mini-clinics in Lake Park throughout the
week.
“The clinics provide general health screenings, as well as STD
testing and pediatric check-ups,” said, Dr. Miryam Espinosa from
the Modern and Classical Languages Department. “Dr. Tracy
Woodard-Meyers from the Women and Gender Studies program has also
been instrumental in setting up stations that provide free clothes
and food.”
Espinosa added that the patients receive referrals to local
physicians for health services that are not available at the
mini-clinics.
The project will conclude Thursday with a nine-hour mini-clinic at
Moreno plaza in Lake Park.
For more information about the South ºìÐÓ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Farmworker Health
Project, visit
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