Posted on 10/20/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
La Plaza Comunitaria and La Paz de Dios will host an annual Hispanic health fair Sunday in conjunction with Binational Health Week, organizers said.
Mirtha Jones, director of Plaza Comunitaria, an initiative of Chattanooga State Technical Community College, said it is important to have a health fair specifically for Hispanics because "There are a lot of Latinos in the area that don't have access to medical care."
She said this is the second year the health fair will be held together with Binational Health Week.
The fair will include about 20 different organizations offering information on various illnesses, such as tuberculosis, epilepsy and testing for HIV and AIDS, according to organizers. The fair also will have entertainment and door prizes.
Kasey Poole, spokeswoman for the Chattanooga Hamilton County Health Department, which is participating in the health fair, said outreach "is always important when we work with the community."
She said it is fundamental to educate people about health care services available to them, and interpreters will be available for participants who need them.
"We want to make sure we provide all the information in their language and let them know there are other places where they can receive free health care services," Ms. Jones said.
She said organizers are expecting 250 to 300 people at the fair.
Binational Health Week is an annual weeklong series of health-promotion and health-education activities geared toward migrants and immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
E-mail Perla Trevizo at ptrevizo@timesfreepress.com
It just means that you hold the preformed ideas that make you angry when even a mention of the word Hispanic.
You are blaming the poor for being taken advantage of by businesses breaking tax law.
And in your misplaced anger you wish to castigate poor Hispanic American families for happening to fall in a certain demographic. Again, 85% legal.
Carlsberg?
Dammm right I’M MAD ........... Presdente FOX USING the USA !!! On C-SPAN... how can this so called Leader, lead his PEOPLE “Illegally” here in the USA ?!!!! His reasoning is that the economy is doing GREAT as a UNIFIED situation w/USA & MEXICO, while comparing GORBACHEV & REAGAN working together in on the Berlin Wall (comparing Apples & Oranges)!! He was promoting his book UGH !!!
That’s OK but I’m Dutch and loyal. :^)
A good Denmark brand that isn’t widely available.
Well, to tell the truth - the best is local. Oak Creek Brewry Nut Brown Ale. It is unsurpassed. Guests are here from CO, and buying cases of it - as it can’t be purchased anywhere else (as far as I know.)
Well thank you so much for that psycho-ANALysis. What would I do without you? You have shown me the light!
Oh, by the way, please indicate my post number in which I claimed “You are blaming the poor for being taken advantage of by businesses breaking tax law”
I wouldnt know...
I posted the article and it does not mention “Hispanic-Americans” and neither have I...
In fact I never mention any nationality at all..
I’m not concerned about where someone is born but it has appeared for hours now that the subject of “race” has been your main topic...
I feel that you would be more comfortable in some other thread..
Just trying to defend people getting medicine without being labeled a “anti-American-socialist-program” designed by la raza to instate Azatlan in Tennessee next to the Chattanooga Sea Aquarium officed up in rock city so to see their enemies coming from 5 states.
"It's for the children..." (We've heard that all before)
"poor and indigent"
You failed to respond to my post regarding definitions. So I guess illegal immigrants CAN'T be poor and indigent?
"It is basic charity."
You had to restrain yourself from stating it's a RIGHT.
That’s commendable of you. For myself, if I had the wherewithal (i.e. time and money) I would be glad to go out and help...fellow Americans who are less fortunate than I. Regardless of ethnicity or religion. The taxes my employer and I throw at the sinkhole we call the US Treasury will have to do for now. I continue to believe that TennesseeNana was alluding not to a ‘specific demographic’, but to (if you will) a specific legal status. I think she would know better than anyone else here how the legal/illegal ratio breaks down in her back yard, and that if illegals weren’t a significant problem there we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
You are pissed at illegals, when if business that hired them and politicians that protect their jobs are to blame.
These health programs are dirt poor... they offer no risk and they do a public service created by politicians and the black market economies.
If you are angry about illegal aliens then place blame where blame is due.
Charity is not a right... that is why it is called charity.
I guess it is a moral distinction.
You know what always surprises me? People who want others to see their point of view - and then use anger, baiting, name calling, yelling and insults to achieve their goal.
LOL!
seven states.
You read these threads and it gets you defensive. And it takes awhile to figure out why.
There you go again ...
Its 8 states...
LOL
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