IF YOU ARE A CA licensed medical or dental professional, they have an overflow crowd of people needing all kinds of medical help.
The 7 day free clinic now being held at the Los Angeles Sports Arena near downtown has more people in line than they can handle.
They handed out bracelets in advance but ran out of professionals to serve them.
Organizers more than doubled their capacity to treat patients this year, from about 19 medical stations to 40 stations, said Dr. Natalie Nevins, the clinic's medical director. But the extra room does little good without volunteer medical professionals to fill it.
"We need optometrists and ophthalmologists desperately," Nevins said.
Of eight women's health rooms available Wednesday, only three had doctors volunteering, Nevins said.
Los Angeles has a huge underserved population. It's even worse now that adult "Denti-Cal" was cancelled. People with serious dental needs simply cannot get a dentist unless they have insurance, and Denti-Cal doesn't exist anymore. The local dental school has long done what it can, but their lobby is full daily.
Please, please, please, if you are a CA licensed dentist or physician, if you possibly can, contact RAM.
They are the good guys !
Teacherken worked with them in Virginia helping with dental triage awhile back and can vouch for how wonderful they are.
Contact RAM NOW !
Please volunteer for the RAM Clinic at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
If you can donate to support them, please do so !
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