Dr. Crafts has been tireless in coordinating donated equipment, supplies and volunteers which, admittedly, only begins to scratch the surface of a massive need for basic medical care of thousands of area residents and itinerant workers.
As Dr. Crafts explains:
A mess of health care workers have volunteered to run a clinic by appointment from 9-3 tomorrow Christmas Eve. It's pretty sweet little clinic with dental chairs and dental xrays in a couple rooms and 2 small medical exam rooms. There's not a lot of medical supplies like injectables and lab testing supplies and stuff but we'll get supplies as we go.
Itsa free clinic and we're starting out with just seeing folks living at the mission and working/volunteering at the mission. Plus I'm allowed to schedule my own home-visit/email patients in there too.
We'll be doing a walk in clinic for the mission folks on Christmas from 1-5 if anyone wants to stop by and bring us food :)
Donations will be accepted through the Union Gospel Mission in Yakima once arrangements have been made on their website. Yakima is located in south central Washington and has an economy fueled primarily by agriculture. Much of the nation's apples, pears, cherries, hops, as well as Washington wines are produced in the region.
